analyze has definitions from the field of psychoanalysis
1
[ verb ] consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

Examples

"analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare" "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial" "analyze your real motives"

Used in print

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

For_one_thing , this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed .

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

It develops and analyzes the national_income , balance_of_international_payments , and many other business indicators .

(Francis J. Johnston and John E. Willard, "The...)

In studying the liquid phase thermal reaction , some 70 tubes from 12 different manifold fillings were prepared and analyzed .

(J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)

The data have not_yet been analyzed for diurnal_variations .

(S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)

We have attempted to simplify the extensive task of analyzing onset ages and completion ages of each child - more_than 1700 values for the entire group - by constructing figures for each of the 21 centers so that the data for all 34 boys and 34 of the girls will appear together for each growth center .

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

Examples

"analyze a specimen" "analyze a sentence" "analyze a chemical compound"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

It is not enough in accounting_for this feeling to analyze it into the wickedness of individual people added together to produce a cumulative effect .

3
[ verb ] break down into components or essential features

Synonyms

analyse

Examples

"analyze today's financial market"

4
[ verb ] (psychoanalysis) subject to psychoanalytic treatment

Examples

"I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"

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