an·a·lyse

[an-l-ahyz]
verb (used with object), an·a·lysed, an·a·lys·ing. Chiefly British.
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analyse or analyze (ˈænəˌlaɪz) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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 is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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analyse
Brit. spelling of analyze (q.v.).
"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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Example sentences
Here, science can help at least to analyse the problem.
Let us once more analyse its meaning carefully.
We will be like this for another half a century unless of course we begin to
  analyse the problem objectively and long term basis.
There they gather huge amounts of data, which can be analysed and acted upon.
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