to analyze
- verb
- /ˈænəˌlaɪz/
- US
- The teacher asked us to analyze the poem for its themes and literary devices.
- analyze data
- collect and analyze
- analyze a study
And that's for you to stop analyzing and start accepting.
- And that's for you to stop analyzing and start accepting.
- They like self reflection, they analyze strengths and weaknesses.
- They have figured out ways to capture, store, analyze everything we do.
- I spend a lot of time self analysing situations, feelings, emotions.
- Well, good luck finding someone to analyze your samples.
- And so Eulisdic proposed that they analyze it with X-ray fluorescence.
- And the dog analyzes how he's playing, right.
Examples
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It's gonna take a while to analyze the data.
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Good problem solvers have a "mathematical disposition"; they analyze situations carefully in mathematical terms.
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All right, OK, so now we're ready to analyze each of these games.
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What if you took the time to really analyze you at your best?
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- No, I think we need to analyze this situation.
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I'm trying to analyze your feelings so I can write about them.
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Library media specialists use current technologies to gather, analyze, and share the results of evidence.
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If you really analyze your beliefs, you'll change them.
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As the lessons progressed, the students began analyzing the essays they produced during the lessons.
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We adopted a multistep, team-based approach to analyze data collected across the 28 focus groups.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
Study something carefully to understand it or decide
To look carefully at something to find facts
To look at something carefully to understand it
To look at something carefully to find facts or problems
Examine something carefully to find out more
To study something carefully to learn more about it
To look at something carefully to find mistakes or missing details
To separate something into smaller parts to explain or study it
To look at something carefully to check if it works or is safe
To read or check something carefully for mistakes
Find the real reason for a problem by checking carefully
To look at something very carefully to check for mistakes
To look deeply into a subject to find information
To look carefully through information to find what is important
To look carefully at something to learn about it
To look through many things carefully to find something specific
To study something closely by breaking it into parts, for example a text or idea
To ask careful questions to find hidden information
To read something slowly and carefully to understand it
To break text or data into parts so a computer can read it
To examine something deeply to learn more about it
To study a text or idea by looking at its parts
To study something carefully to find its main points
To look into something more carefully to find hidden facts
To examine something carefully by looking at its parts
To study a difficult problem carefully to understand or solve it
To look closely at the small parts of a plan or report to understand it
To look inside a program or object while it runs to find parts and information about what it can do
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Phrasal Verbs
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Etymology
Analyze comes from the Greek parts ana- 'up' and lyein 'to loosen', so it originally meant to 'loosen' something into parts. That's why to analyze something now is to break it down and study the parts to understand it.