- a variation of analyze.
analyse
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to examine in detail in order to discover meaning, essential features, etc
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to break down into components or essential features
to analyse a financial structure
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to make a mathematical, chemical, grammatical, etc, analysis of
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another word for psychoanalyse
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of analyse
C17: back formation from analysis
Explanation
To analyse (analyze is U.S. English) something is to consider it in detail so you can figure out its workings or meaning. Analyse comes from Greek roots meaning "loosen." If you analyse something, it's as if you're untying it and letting the different parts separate so that you can study them. If you've got some mystery substance, you can analyse it by performing chemical reactions to break it into its parts. If you analyse a poem, you look at it word-by-word and even sound-by-sound. But remember that analyse is a British spelling, with analyze as the American version.
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This less fixed style is more difficult to analyse from the outside looking in, which can result in misunderstanding his work entirely.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
"It would be exciting to also obtain this material to analyse it in my laboratory," she says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The researchers used advanced AI tools that are able to analyse code and find flaws much faster than humans or older systems can.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
"In a year we would analyse 1,000-1,500 samples, often in case of paternity or crime scenes," said Mukul Pradhan, chief scientific officer at the National Forensic Science Laboratory.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
She can cut to the nub of a problem, dissect and analyse it in the time it takes other people to say good morning.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
In the four years to December 2022, Stanford researchers analysed four million job applications processed by an AI hiring tool, external.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
In footage analysed by the BBC, it is clear that objects, including plastic chairs, are thrown, but we have no evidence that they included stones.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
He gained international recognition for his lunar research before moving to Cambridge University, where he analysed meteorites found in Antarctica that were believed to have come from Mars.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
BBC Verify has analysed satellite imagery which appears to show these ship-to-ship transfers, seemingly more protected from Iranian attack, taking place off the coast of the Omani port city, Sohar.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
I cannot remember to what extent I analysed this feeling at the time, but today, looking back on it, it does not seem so difficult to account for.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fires in Indonesia burned through over 1.9 million hectares between January and the end of September this year, a monitor analysing satellite imagery said on Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Fires in Indonesia that have caused a regional haze crisis burned through over 1.9 million hectares between January and the end of September this year, a monitor analysing satellite imagery said on Monday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
We identified more than 12,000 fossils by analysing the organic residue left behind by this dissolution under a microscope.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Critics of Pangram and other AI-detectors say they are unreliable – with different programmes often giving different results after analysing the same texts.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
I thanked him for the compliment, but, analysing the saying since, I am not so sure that the commendation I accepted was really proffered to me.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
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