All 3 Uses of
analyze
in
True Believer, by Sparks
- Behind the wheel on the way to Greenleaf, Jeremy tried to analyze the facts with cool remove.†
Chpt 12analyze = examine
- He couldn't explain it, but somehow he didn't want to analyze it.†
Chpt 13
- He looked for solutions, he made suppositions, he tried to analyze long-term scenarios, in order to carefully assess the potential outcomes.†
Chpt 17 *
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.