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analyse

[an-l-ahyz] Example Sentences Origin

an·a·lyse

[an-l-ahyz]
verb (used with object), -lysed, -lys·ing. Chiefly British.
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  • We will be like this for another half a century unless of course we begin to analyse the problem objectively and long term basis.
  • It's amazing how much people love to analyse their toys.
  • The idea is that while meditating you let stuff float in and out of your consciousness, but you don't analyse it or act on it.
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analyse or analyze (ˈænəˌlaɪz)
 
vb
1.  to examine in detail in order to discover meaning, essential features, etc
2.  to break down into components or essential features: to analyse a financial structure
3.  to make a mathematical, chemical, grammatical, etc, analysis of
4.  another word for psychoanalyse
 
[C17: back formation from analysis]
 
analyze or analyze
 
vb
 
[C17: back formation from analysis]
 
ana'lysable or analyze
 
adj
 
ana'lyzable or analyze
 
adj
 
analy'sation or analyze
 
n
 
analy'zation or analyze
 
n
 
'analyser or analyze
 
n
 
'analyzer or analyze
 
n

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analyse
Brit. spelling of analyze (q.v.).
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"Analyse is better than analyze, but merely as being the one of the two equally indefensible forms that has won. The correct but now impossible form would be analysize (or analysise), with analysist for existing analyst." [Fowler]
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