analyse or (N American) analyze /anˈə-līz/ transitive verb- To resolve or separate a thing into its elements or component parts
- To ascertain those parts
- To trace a thing or things to the source or cause
- To discover the general principles underlying individual phenomena by doing this
- To resolve a sentence into its syntactic elements (grammar)
- To psychoanalyse
ORIGIN: Gr analȳein to unloose, from ana up, and lȳein to loose anˈalysable or (N American) anˈalyzable adjective anˈalyser or (N American) anˈalyzer noun - A person who analyses
- In a polariscope the nicol (or substitute) through which the polarized light passes
- A device that analyses
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