analyse
pronunciation
How to pronounce analyse in British English:
UK [ˈænəlaɪz]
How to pronounce analyse in American English:
US [ˈænəlaɪz]
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- Verb:
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- break down into components or essential features
- make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
- subject to psychoanalytic treatment
Word Origin
- analyse (v.)
- chiefly British English spelling of analyze (q.v.). Analyse is better than analyze, but merely as being the one of the two equally indefensible forms that has won. The correct but now impossible form would be analysize (or analysise), with analysist for existing analyst. [Fowler]
Example
- 1. Panellists carefully analyse each bite for texture and flavour .
- 2. How do you analyse our weaknesses ?
- 3. My main role was to analyse human excrement .
- 4. The most pressing need is to gather and analyse data .
- 5. They will analyse conversations in layers .