ANALYZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does analyze mean? 

• ANALYZE (verb)
  The verb ANALYZE has 4 senses:

1. consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

2. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features

3. break down into components or essential features

4. subject to psychoanalytic treatment

  Familiarity information: ANALYZE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANALYZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they analyze    ... he / she / it analyzes   
Past simple: analyzed   
Past participle: analyzed   
-ing form: analyzing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study

Context example:

analyze your real motives

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "analyze"):

assay (analyze (chemical substances))

consider; look at; view (look at carefully; study mentally)

sieve; sift (check and sort carefully)

investigate; look into (investigate scientifically)

follow; trace (follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something)

screen (examine methodically)

audit; inspect; scrutinise; scrutinize (examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification)

reexamine; review (look at again; examine again)

check; check into; check out; check over; check up on; go over; look into; suss out (examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition)

compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)

survey (make a survey of; for statistical purposes)

appraise; survey (consider in a comprehensive way)

diagnose (subject to a medical analysis)

diagnose; name (determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis)

anatomize (analyze down to the smallest detail)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue analyze the movie

Derivation:

analysis (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)

analyst (someone who is skilled at analyzing data)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

analyse; analyze; break down; dissect; take apart

Context example:

analyze a chemical compound

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "analyze"):

botanise; botanize (collect and study plants)

parse (analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

synthesize (combine so as to form a more complex, product)

Derivation:

analyst (someone who is skilled at analyzing data)

analyzer (an instrument that performs analyses)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Break down into components or essential features

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

analyse; analyze

Context example:

analyze today's financial market

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "analyze"):

factor analyse; factor analyze (to perform a factor analysis of correlational data)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

analysis (an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole)

analyst (an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions)

analyzer (an instrument that performs analyses)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Subject to psychoanalytic treatment

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

analyse; analyze; psychoanalyse; psychoanalyze

Context example:

I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist

Hypernyms (to "analyze" is one way to...):

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

Domain category:

psychiatry; psychological medicine; psychopathology (the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

analysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)

analyst (a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis)

 Context examples 

A laboratory procedure that analyzes the genetic profile of the T-cell receptor variable complementary determining region 3 (CDR3) for an individual.

(CDR3 Spectratyping, NCI Thesaurus)

The test name given to the test that analyzes a particular set of vital signs including temperature, respiratory rate, heart rate, and blood pressure.

(CDISC SDTM Vital Sign Terminology by Name, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The test code given to the test that analyzes a particular set of vital signs including temperature, respiratory rate, heart rate, and blood pressure.

(CDISC SDTM Vital Sign Terminology by Code, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A person, company, institution, group, or organization that oversees or pays for a clinical trial and collects and analyzes the data.

(Clinical trial sponsor, NCI Dictionary)

A living person who is observed, analyzed, examined, investigated, experimented upon, and/or treated in the course of a clinical trial.

(Clinical Trial Subject, NCI Thesaurus)

Comparative genomic hybridization is an ideal tool for analyzing chromosomal imbalances in archived tumor material and for examining possible correlations between these findings and tumor phenotypes.

(Comparative Genomic Hybridization, NCI Thesaurus)

The resulting fragment ions are then mass analyzed.

(Collision-Induced Dissociation, NCI Thesaurus)

Variables include the value being analyzed (e.g., AVAL) and the description of the value being analyzed (e.g., PARAM).

(CDISC Basic Data Structure Dataset, NCI Thesaurus)

Cancer registries gather a wide variety of specific information on cancer patients that can be analyzed to identify health disparity trends in cancer incidence, mortality and patient survival.

(Cancer Registry, NCI Thesaurus)

X-rays are passed through crystals and the subsequent diffraction pattern is analyzed.

(Atomic Resolution X-Ray Crystallography, NCI Thesaurus)