All 3 Uses of
analyze
in
Summer Pleasures, by Nora Roberts
- I'm not interested in being analyzed.†
Chpt 1.3analyzed = examined in detail to better understand
- She'd studied it, trying to analyze and guess at the techniques he'd used for setting the shot and making the print.†
Chpt 2.1 *analyze = examine
- Shade was a man who analyzed each movement, every texture, shape, color.†
Chpt 2.2analyzed = examined in detail to better understand
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.