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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
analyse is a verb meaning "consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning". It carries 4 recorded senses.
consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
“analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare”
“analyze the evidence in a criminal trial”
“analyze your real motives”
break down into components or essential features
“analyze today's financial market”
make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
“analyze a specimen”
“analyze a sentence”
“analyze a chemical compound”
subject to psychoanalytic treatment
“I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist”
psychiatry
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for analyse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.