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ANALYZE

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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 "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)

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 "analyze"):

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

botanise; botanize (collect and study plants)

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:

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 "analyze"):

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 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 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 "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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A technique utilizing a scanning probe to image and analyze the surface of a material with atomic-level resolution.

(Atomic Force Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

They are used to analyze tissue samples to help diagnose diseases.

(Affinity reagent, NCI Dictionary)

His face became more expectant and tense as he tried to analyze and identify the impression.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The science of collecting and analyzing biologic or health data using statistical methods.

(Biometrics, NCI Dictionary)

The use of statistical methods to analyze biological observations and phenomena.

(Biostatistics, NCI Thesaurus)

Techniques used to statistically analyze biological data.

(Biostatistical Methods, NCI Thesaurus)

The utilization or development of computer programs to solve, analyze, understand or manage any simple or complex task.

(Computational Technique, NCI Thesaurus)

The company may design, manage, and monitor the trial, and analyze the results.

(Contract Research Organization, NCI Dictionary)

The assay, performed using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor tissue, analyzes the expression of a panel of 21 genes and the results are provided as a Recurrence Score (0-100).

(Oncotype DX breast cancer assay, NCI Thesaurus)

The treated samples are then analyzed using next-generation sequencing techniques.

(NOMe-Seq, NCI Thesaurus)