All 3 Uses of
analyze
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Was it not Plato, that artist in thought, who had first analysed it?†
Chpt 3analysed = examined in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyzed.
- I am analysing women at the present, so I ought to know.†
Chpt 4analysing = examining in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyzing.
- I must analyse it some day.†
Chpt 4 *analyse = examine in detail to better understandunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. American's spell it analyze.
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.