Standard Lemma guide

analyze

verb · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • ăn′ə-līz
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈæn.ə.laɪz/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canadian, General-American, Standard: /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/
  • Canadian, General-American, Standard: [ˈɛən.əˌlaɪz]
  • Canadian, Western: [ˈæ(ː)nəˌlaɪz]
  • [ˈɑnələi̯z] Maritime Canadian
  • [ˈanələi̯z] Maritime Canadian
  • Australian: /ˈæn.ə.lɑez/
  • Australian: /ˈæn.lɑez/
  • New-Zealand: /ˈɛn.ə.laɪz/
  • New-Zealand: [ˈɛn.ə.lɑe̯z]
  • CMU ARPABET: AE1 N AH0 L AY2 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

verb

Meaning 1

To subject to analysis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, transitive

Examples

  • analyze a problem

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

verb

Meaning 3

To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

verb

Meaning 4

To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

subject to psychoanalytic treatment

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: treat, care for

6

verb

Meaning 6

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • analyze a specimen
  • analyze a sentence
  • analyze a chemical compound

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart

Antonyms: synthesize

Narrower terms: parse, botanize, botanise

7

verb

Meaning 7

consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas

Antonyms: none provided

Narrower terms: anatomize, diagnose, name, survey, appraise, compare, check, check up on, look into, check out, suss out, check over, go over, check into, assay, review, reexamine, audit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspect, screen, trace, follow, investigate, sieve, sift, view, consider, look at

8

verb

Meaning 8

break down into components or essential features

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • analyze today's financial market

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: analyse

Antonyms: none provided

Narrower terms: factor analyse, factor analyze

History

Etymology

Probably formed within English, by back-formation, or by haplology from analysis + -ize, or from Middle French analyser, from the noun analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (análusis, “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”), from ἀναλύω (analúō, “to unloose, release, set free”), from ἀνά (aná, “on, up, above, throughout”) + λύσις (lúsis, “a loosening”), from λύω (lúō, “to unfasten”).

Across languages

Translations

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: حَلَّلَ (ḥallala) — to subject to analysis
  • Azerbaijani: təhlil etmək — to subject to analysis
  • Belarusian: аналізава́ць (analizavácʹ) — to subject to analysis
  • Bengali: বিশ্লেষণ করা (bisleśon kora) — to subject to analysis
  • Bulgarian: анализи́рам (analizíram) — to subject to analysis
  • Burmese: စိတ်ဖြာ (cithpra) — to subject to analysis
  • Burmese: စိစစ် (ci.cac) — to subject to analysis
  • Burmese: ရုပ်တွက် (ruptwak) — to subject to analysis
  • Burmese: သရုပ်ခွဲ (sa.ruphkwai:) — to subject to analysis
  • Catalan: analitzar — to subject to analysis
  • Chinese Cantonese: 分析 (fan1 sik1) — to subject to analysis
  • Chinese: 分析 (zh-min-nan) — to subject to analysis
  • Chinese Mandarin: 分析 (fēnxī) — to subject to analysis
  • Czech: analyzovat — to subject to analysis
  • Danish: analysere — to subject to analysis
  • Dutch: analyseren — to subject to analysis
  • Estonian: analüüsima — to subject to analysis
  • Finnish: analysoida — to subject to analysis
  • Finnish: eritellä — to subject to analysis
  • French: analyser — to subject to analysis
  • Galician: analizar — to subject to analysis
  • Georgian: გაანალიზება (gaanalizeba) — to subject to analysis
  • German: analysieren — to subject to analysis
  • Greek: αναλύω (analýo) — to subject to analysis
  • Hindi: विश्लेषण करना (viśleṣaṇ karnā) — to subject to analysis
  • Hungarian: analizál — to subject to analysis
  • Hungarian: elemez — to subject to analysis
  • Icelandic: greina — to subject to analysis
  • Indonesian: menelaah — to subject to analysis
  • Irish: anailísigh — to subject to analysis
  • Italian: analizzare — to subject to analysis
  • Japanese: 分析する (bunseki suru) — to subject to analysis
  • Kazakh: талдау (taldau) — to subject to analysis
  • Khmer: វិកប្ប (vikap) — to subject to analysis
  • Korean: 분석하다 (bunseokhada) — to subject to analysis
  • Kyrgyz: талдоо (taldoo) — to subject to analysis
  • Lao: ວິເຄາະ (wi khǫ) — to subject to analysis
  • Latvian: analizēt — to subject to analysis
  • Macedonian: анализи́ра (analizíra) — to subject to analysis
  • Malay: analisis — to subject to analysis
  • Manx: bun-ronsaghey — to subject to analysis
  • Norwegian Bokmål: analysere — to subject to analysis
  • Occitan: analisar — to subject to analysis
  • Persian: تحلیل کردن (tahlil kardan) — to subject to analysis
  • Persian: تجزیه کردن (tajziye kardan) — to subject to analysis
  • Polish: analizować — to subject to analysis
  • Polish: przeanalizować — to subject to analysis
  • Polish: zanalizować — to subject to analysis
  • Portuguese: analisar — to subject to analysis
  • Romanian: analiza — to subject to analysis
  • Russian: анализи́ровать (analizírovatʹ) — to subject to analysis
  • Russian: проанализи́ровать (proanalizírovatʹ) — to subject to analysis
  • Serbo-Croatian: анализи́рати — to subject to analysis
  • Serbo-Croatian: analizírati — to subject to analysis
  • Slovak: analyzovať — to subject to analysis
  • Slovene: analizirati — to subject to analysis
  • Spanish: analizar — to subject to analysis
  • Swedish: analysera — to subject to analysis
  • Tajik: таҳлил кардан (tahlil kardan) — to subject to analysis
  • Tajik: таҷзия кардан (tajziya kardan) — to subject to analysis
  • Tajik: анализ кардан (analiz kardan) — to subject to analysis
  • Telugu: విశ్లేషించు (viślēṣiñcu) — to subject to analysis
  • Thai: วิเคราะห์ (wí-krɔ́) — to subject to analysis
  • Ukrainian: аналізува́ти (analizuváty) — to subject to analysis
  • Ukrainian: проаналізува́ти (proanalizuváty) — to subject to analysis
  • Urdu: تجزیہ کرنا (tajziyā karnā) — to subject to analysis
  • Uzbek: analiz qilmoq — to subject to analysis
  • Uzbek: tahlil qilmoq — to subject to analysis
  • Vietnamese: phân tích — to subject to analysis
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