All 4 Uses
analyze
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This Side of Paradise
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- By afternoon Amory realized that now the newest arrivals were taking him for an upper classman, and he tried conscientiously to look both pleasantly blase and casually critical, which was as near as he could analyze the prevalent facial expression.†
Chpt 1.2analyze = examine
- "Oh, let's go in," she interrupted, "if you want to analyze.†
Chpt 1.2
- "You're a nervous strain"—this emphatically—"and when you analyze every little emotion and instinct I just don't have 'em."†
Chpt 1.3 *
- Well, I began analyzing it—my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark—so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me—I let it play stray dog or escaped convict or ghost, and then saw myself coming along the road.†
Chpt 1.4analyzing = examining 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) 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.