All 3 Uses of
analyze
in
The Princess Diaries
- Moscovitz were totally trying to analyze me.†
Chpt 1analyze = examine
- And I wish my dad could be more like Lilly's dad, who always wants to make me an omelet because he thinks I'm too skinny, and who walks around in his old college sweatpants when he doesn't have to go to his office to analyze anybody.†
Chpt 2
- They totally overheard and told me that I had to go home while they analyzed Lilly about her need to taunt her sex-crazed stalker.†
Chpt 2 *analyzed = 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.