Dictionary Entry
analyze
analyze is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 20 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
- 2verb
subject to psychoanalytic treatment
"I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
- 3verb
make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
"analyze a specimen"
"analyze a sentence"
- 4verb
consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
"analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"
"analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"
- 5verb
break down into components or essential features
"analyze today's financial market"
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