analystn.
/ˈanəlɪst/, /ˈanl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈænələst/ 1. A mathematician skilled in algebraic geometry (now historical) or in modern analysis (see analysis n. 5).
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > knowledge of > one who has
mathematician?a1475
mathematical1545
mathematic1547
algebrician1579
computist1595
algebraist1614
philomathematic1621
Archimedesa1649
algorist1656
analyst1656
fluxionist1734
calculist1829
metamathematician1935
numerical analyst1956
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iii. xx. 227 The Analyst that can solve these Problemes without knowing first the length of the arch..shall do more then ordinary Geometry is able to perform.
1675 J. Collins Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 212 A learned analyst, and a person fit to labour in discovering canons for the surd roots of equations.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. §2 ⁋87 Till the Analyst obtains the true Root.
1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 136 A skill like that of the geometrical analyst.
1894 Ann. Math. 8 100 Though so powerfully equipped as an analyst that in the matter of primes he [sc. Riemann] succeeded where all others had failed, yet was he of essence geometer.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 28 Nov. 2/1 Poincaré divides mathematicians into analysts and geometers—i.e., into logicians and ‘intuitives’.
1960 H. T. Davis Introd. Nonlinear Differential & Integral Equations viii. 226 A long and arduous investigation was initiated by French analysts to separate equations with the desired property from the total class of equations which satisfied the criteria.
1995 G. R. Buchanan Schaum's Outl. of Theory & Probl. of Finite Elem. Anal. i. 5 Homogeneous differential equations..offer a somewhat different challenge for the analyst than the nonhomogeneous equation.
2.
a. gen. A person who approaches a situation, event, etc., analytically or who tries to consider all the factors involved before forming an opinion; a person with an analytical mind. Also with of.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > [noun] > analysis > person engaged in
anatomist1587
analyser1610
analyst1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Analyst, a person who analyzes a thing, or makes use of the analytical method. (See 1.)
1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 1 June 6 Some pleasant Analyst of Taste.
1851 H. Spencer Social Statics xxii. §3 Unobserved, perhaps, by the many, but sufficiently visible to the analyst.
1890 Harper's Mag. May 838/1 The most gifted of the impressionist painters are analysts and synthetizers.
1934 R. B. McCallum in A. B. Brown Great Democrats 476 A severe reasoner and analyst he remained, but he was never the dry, didactic pedant that his opponents were incline to picture.
1987 C. Achebe Anthills of Savannah i. 12 On the very next day after the politicians were overthrown Okong metamorphosed into a brilliant analyst of their many excesses.
2002 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 30 July e1 Now he's [sc. Bruce Springsteen] a guy who has a couple of kids, he's looked at life as an analyst as well as a rock 'n' roller.
b. A specialist or expert in the analysis of events and situations or the prediction of future developments in a particular field. Frequently with modifying word, as financial analyst, military analyst, political analyst, etc.For security, systems, traffic analyst, etc.: see the first element.
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1874 Times 11 Nov. 10/1 As a phenomenon of some interest for military analysts, I may state that as many as 130 Carlist shells have fallen..without inflicting even a scratch on any of the Miqueletes.
1936 A. N. Holcombe in E. B. Logan Amer. Polit. Scene i. 8 On the maps of the political analyst it [sc. the Northeast] may be identified as that section of the country in which the Democratic party gained more than it lost.
1961 ‘E. Lathen’ Banking on Death i. 1 All this buying and selling [on Wall Street]..requires the skilled activity of thousands of specialists: traders, brokers, lawyers, analysts.
1970 N.Y. Times 2 Aug. 19/1 Political and strategic considerations take second place behind sheer economic necessity, the Eastern European analysts think.
1980 Times 18 Jan. 14/1 Analysts believe that the Kremlin drew up a ‘worst-case’ scenario.
1987 Computerworld 9 Feb. 1 An industry analyst..says that he believes the machine's days are numbered.
2003 D. L. Scott Wall St. Words (ed. 3) 145 The rules set by FASB play a large role in determining the numbers that companies show the financial analysts and stockholders.
3. Chemistry. An expert or specialist in chemical analysis; a person whose profession it is to determine the chemical composition of a substance or sample, or to test for particular components (e.g. contaminants) within them.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > general chemical analysis > one who carries out
analyser1756
analyst1786
1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 118 Hepatic air..possesses many peculiar and distinct properties... These properties were first discovered by that incomparable analyst M. Scheele.
1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) ii. ii. 355 To that most accomplished analyst, Klaproth, we owe the discovery of a simple..mode of analyzing tin ores.
1869 Daily News 11 Aug. In the stomach and liver of the child the analyst to whom they were committed found distinct traces of the same poison.
1886 Times 11 Nov. 6/1 To expect an analyst who receives a sample of beer in his capacity of public analyst to examine it for, let us say, aconitia is absurd.
1927 Biometrika 19 153 We are going to deal with..the public analyst who provides evidence to convict the milkman of watering his milk, and the grocer of sanding his sugar.
1964 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 86 5057/2 The chemical analyst, the research chemist, and the process developer..depend heavily in the discharge of their tasks on the ability to separate phases and components of mixtures.
2003 Accts. Chem Res. 36 276 He is now a Chemical Analyst at the Government Laboratory.
4. Philosophy. A person who applies analysis (analysis n. 6) to philosophical concepts, propositions, etc.; spec. a practitioner of analytical philosophy (see analytical philosophy n. at analytical adj. Compounds).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > language theories of individual philosophers > [noun] > philosophical analysis > philosopher who practises
analyst1852
linguistic analyst1945
1852 O. W. Wight tr. V. Cousin Course Hist. Mod. Philos. II. 335 We regard Sir Wm. Hamilton as the profoundest analyst who has appeared since Aristotle.
1888 Mind 13 539 While the analyst has all the difficulties of an arduous problem to encounter, the Kantist has only to criticise the weak points.
1928 R. C. Lodge Plato's Theory of Ethics iii. 76 It is demonstrated that what is commonly accepted as a moral idea..falls apart, in the hands of the scientific analyst, into elements which are disparate.
1936 A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic ii. 52 The majority of those who are commonly supposed to have been great philosophers were primarily not metaphysicians but analysts.
1969 D. Sinha Stud. Phenomenol. ii. 27 The difference between the analyst's doctrine of linguistic use and the phenomenological analysis in terms of intentionality need not..be over-emphasized.
1972 Proc. Third Internat. Kant Congr. 133 The argument here developed by Prichard is..one that has since become classic among British analysts.
2001 Philos. & Phenomenal. Res. 62 38 The Wittgensteinian analyst hopes to substantiate the claim that belief in a Moore-paradoxical proposition is an act of self-contradiction.
5. Music. A person who makes an analysis (analysis n. 7) of a musical work.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > music scholar > [noun] > analyst
analyst1866
1866 Macmillan's Mag. July 192/2 Our great lecturers on music are our great historians, and Hawkins and Burney stand forth as our foremost lecturers. Hawkins, as an analyst of early and learned works, is excellent and worthy of all commendation.
1885 G. B. Shaw How to become Musical Critic (1960) 109 The false estimates into which the analyst has been led by the necessity of judging the score by eye instead of by ear.
1893 Guardian 8 Mar. 382/3 The overture is very long, very ambitious, very strident, and—as the analyst would say—very ‘strepitous’.
1927 Times 3 Dec. 10/2 A chant and an appoggiatura. To these primitive materials the eye of the analyst may reduce the score of Zoltán Kodály's ‘Psalmus Hungaricus’. The one belongs to the voices, the other to the orchestra.
1963 L. Ostransky Perspectives on Music 34 A musical analyst would call each group a motive, and say that each successive two groups, beginning with the first, constitute a phrase, each two phrases a period, and the two periods a melody.
2004 Musical Times Autumn 103/2 Holzman gives a riveting account of his approach to this rather sprawling manifestation of aggressive iconoclasm as performer and analyst.
6. = psychoanalyst n. Also in later use more generally: a person who practises or is expert in psychology or psychiatric therapies.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > [noun] > practitioner of
third ear1907
psychoanalyst1910
analyst1912
psych1946
depth psychologist1947
1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 119 Often a quotation, an example, or an illustration used by S. to elucidate one of his insane notions betrays what he actually meant as well as the analyst could have wished.
1952 V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy 55 In moneyed circles with a tinge of culture people talk of ‘my analyst’ as glibly as our grandmothers used to talk of ‘my grocer’.
1977 R. Holland Self & Social Context iv. 76 The Freudian analyst is prepared to hold the transference feelings, and possible acting out behaviours, long enough for the client to re-experience and go beyond them.
1992 L. Banner In Full Flower v. ix. 326 Some analysts asset that women do not experience the mid-life crisis typical of men.
2006 Sunday Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 17 Dec. b13 Psychoanalysis. This is the kind of therapy typified in Woody Allen movies, with the patient on the couch talking..and the analyst responding minimally.
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analyst's couch n. a couch upon which a patient reclines while undergoing psychoanalysis or psychotherapy; also figurative.
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1936 B. Sachs Keeping your Child Normal 92 It is a fact that many patients know what they are to talk about before they lie down on the analyst's couch.
1988 N.Y. Times 27 Nov. 24 ‘War Stars’, a penetrating and often disturbing study of why we create superweapons in the pursuit of ‘security and peace’, places our culture on the analyst's couch.
2006 L. Yankee Just Outside Spotlight 98 I spent years on the analyst's couch dealing with this.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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