analyze

Definition

  • verb: to study (something) closely and carefully
  • verb: to study or determine the nature and relationship of the parts of by 'analysis'
  • synonyms: air, alphabetize, anatomize

Examples

  • The bacteria were 'analyzed' under a powerful microscope.

  • We took the sample to be chemically 'analyzed' by a lab.

  • The data was recorded and 'analyzed' by computer.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) but that didn't work out. We thought about sending a guy with a bucket, to pull a sample from the sewer, to analyze his fecal matter. What was wrong with that, exactly? What was wrong with that? That, uh... The sample would be too diluted. And it's asking too much to get a voice (..)
    2012 Zero Dark Thirty