Meanings
present singular third person analyzes · participle present analyzing · participle past analyzed · past analyzed · alternative Canada Commonwealth sometimes analyse
- UStransitiveTo subject to analysis.
This section addresses the recent homeless backlash by reviewing and analyzing antihomeless legislation[…]
1995, Madeleine R. Stoner, The Civil Rights of Homeless People, page 1363 more examples
The clearest lesson is that the F.D.A. needs the power to demand adequate postmarketing studies and the resources to analyze the results.
2007 June 12, “Misdirected Studies on Avandia”, in New York TimesThe phase structure of the fabricated nanophosphor samples was analyzed by using an X-ray diffractometer (XRD; Mac Science, M18XHF-SRA) with Cu Kα ( λ = 1.5402 Å) radiation, and the JADE software was applied to analyze the XRD data.
2015 August 12, Peng Du et al., “Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Efficient Near-Infrared Sunlight Harvesting using Upconverting Y2O3:Er3+/Yb3+ Phosphor Nanoparticles”, in Nanoscale Research Letters, volume 10, →DOIWhen sensors record a gunlike noise in, say, Cape Town or Chicago, software analyzes it for the sonic signatures of gunfire, and within seconds Beisner and his team listen to those audio files and look at those recorded waveforms at their office in Newark, Calif.
2019 June 8, Malia Wollan, “How to Tell Gunfire From Fireworks”, in The New York Times Magazine - UStransitiveTo separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbconsider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
verbmake a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀνάλυσις“a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”
- Medieval Latinanalysis
- Middle Frenchanalyser
- Englishanalyze
Probably formed within English, by back-formation, or by haplology from analysis + -ize, or from Middle French analyser, from the noun analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis, “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “to unloose, release, set free”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up, above, throughout”) + λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”), from λύω (lúō, “to unfasten”).
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Arabic حَلَّلَ
- حَلَّلَ (ḥallala)to subject to analysis
Bengali বিশ্লেষণ করা
- বিশ্লেষণ করা (bisleśon kora)to subject to analysis
Bulgarian анализи́рам
- анализи́рам (analizíram)to subject to analysis
Catalan analitzar
- analitzarto subject to analysis
Chinese Cantonese 分析
- 分析 (fan¹ sik¹)to subject to analysis
Chinese Mandarin 分析
- 分析 (fēnxī)to subject to analysis
Czech analyzovat
- analyzovatto subject to analysis
Danish analysere
- analysereto subject to analysis
Dutch analyseren
- analyserento subject to analysis
Esperanto analizi
- analizito subject to analysis
Estonian analüüsima
- analüüsimato subject to analysis
Finnish analysoida, eritellä
- analysoidato subject to analysis
- eritelläto subject to analysis
French analyser
- analyserto subject to analysis
German analysieren
- analysierento subject to analysis
Greek αναλύω
- αναλύω (analýo)to subject to analysis
Hindi विश्लेषण करना
- विश्लेषण करना (viśleṣaṇ karnā)to subject to analysis
Hungarian analizál, elemez
- analizálto subject to analysis
- elemezto subject to analysis
Icelandic greina
- greinato subject to analysis
Indonesian menelaah
- menelaahto subject to analysis
Irish anailísigh
- anailísighto subject to analysis
Italian analizzare
- analizzareto subject to analysis
Japanese 分析する
- 分析する (bunseki suru)to subject to analysis
Korean 분석하다
- 분석하다 (bunseokhada)to subject to analysis
Latvian analizēt
- analizētto subject to analysis
Malay analisis
- analisisto subject to analysis
Norwegian Bokmål analysere
- analysereto subject to analysis
Persian تحلیل کردن, تجزیه کردن
- تحلیل کردن (tahlil kardan)to subject to analysis
- تجزیه کردن (tajziye kardan)to subject to analysis
Polish analizować, przeanalizować
- analizowaćto subject to analysis
- przeanalizowaćto subject to analysis
- zanalizowaćto subject to analysis
Portuguese analisar
- analisarto subject to analysis
Romanian analiza
- analizato subject to analysis
Russian анализи́ровать, проанализи́ровать
- анализи́ровать (analizírovatʹ)to subject to analysis
- проанализи́ровать (proanalizírovatʹ)to subject to analysis
Slovak analyzovať
- analyzovaťto subject to analysis
Spanish analizar
- analizarto subject to analysis
Swedish analysera
- analyserato subject to analysis
Thai วิเคราะห์
- วิเคราะห์ (wí-krɔ́)to subject to analysis
Ukrainian аналізува́ти, проаналізува́ти
- аналізува́ти (analizuváty)to subject to analysis
- проаналізува́ти (proanalizuváty)to subject to analysis
Urdu تجزیہ کرنا
- تجزیہ کرنا (tajziyā karnā)to subject to analysis
Vietnamese phân tích
- phân tíchto subject to analysis
Cite this entry
analyze. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/analyze
“analyze.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/analyze. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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