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ANALYSE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to psychoanalytic treatment

Example:

I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist

Synonyms:

analyse; analyze; psychoanalyse; psychoanalyze

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "analyse" 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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Example:

analyze a chemical compound

Synonyms:

analyse; analyze; break down; dissect; take apart

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

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

botanise; botanize (collect and study plants)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

analyser (an instrument that performs analyses)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Example:

analyze your real motives

Synonyms:

analyse; analyze; canvass; examine; study

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

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)

assay (analyze (chemical substances))

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 analyse the movie

Derivation:

analyser (an instrument that performs analyses)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Break down into components or essential features

Example:

analyze today's financial market

Synonyms:

analyse; analyze

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

The researchers analysed the placentas of young (3-4 months old) and aged rats (9.5-10 months old) that were pregnant with male and female offspring.

(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)

Results of analyses are discussed and compared at an annual CAMDA conference.

(Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

The main areas of support include: cost and cost-effectiveness analyses of programs and initiatives, quality of life and functional status assessment, psychosocial outcome and satisfaction evaluation, survey design and research, and simulation modeling.

(Cancer Clinical and Economic Outcomes Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The department responsible for performing chemical and enzymatic analyses of body fluids and tissues.

(Clinical Chemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

The results of any chemical or enzymatic analyses of body fluids and tissues of an organism.

(Clinical Chemistry Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

The Digital Imaging Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with support in high-resolution deconvolution microscopy, digital epi-fluorescence and brightfield microscopy, quantitative image analysis, cell microinjection and resulting biological analyses, and photo-production.

(Digital Imaging Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

"By combining biological, ecological, historical and sociological analyses, new constraints on the impact of this plague were identified."

(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)

Used for the scientific discipline or the descriptive analyses themselves.

(Ethnography, NCI Thesaurus)

By analysing subtle variations in the light from the star, they found traces of chemical elements in amounts that scientists had never before observed at a white dwarf.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

Scientists used ancient DNA analyses and carbon-14 dating to demonstrate the past existence of a unique population of Icelandic walrus that went extinct shortly after Norse settlement some 1,100 years ago.

(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)