All 6 Uses of
analyze
in
Jane Eyre
- Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.†
p. 29.2 *analyse = examine in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyze.
- The ground was hard, the air was still, my road was lonely; I walked fast till I got warm, and then I walked slowly to enjoy and analyse the species of pleasure brooding for me in the hour and situation.†
p. 131.3
- I listened long: suddenly I discovered that my ear was wholly intent on analysing the mingled sounds, and trying to discriminate amidst the confusion of accents those of Mr. Rochester; and when it caught them, which it soon did, it found a further task in framing the tones, rendered by distance inarticulate, into words.†
p. 196.4analysing = examining in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyzing.
- Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare — to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.†
p. 218.8analyse = examine in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyze.
- You have analysed, then.†
p. 231.8analysed = examined in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyzed.
- Then I thought of Eliza and Georgiana; I beheld one the cynosure of a ball-room, the other the inmate of a convent cell; and I dwelt on and analysed their separate peculiarities of person and character.†
p. 280.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(analyze) to examine and consider something in detail to better understand it
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, analyze may specifically mean to determine chemical components or to psychoanalyze. Very rarely, you may see the British spell analyzes as analyses--which Americans use as the plural spelling for analysis.