From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
analyze
v 1: 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" [syn:
analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas]
2: 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" [syn: analyse, break down, dissect, {take
apart}] [ant: synthesize]
3: break down into components or essential features; "analyze
today's financial market" [syn: analyse]
4: subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in
Vienna by a famous psychiatrist" [syn: analyse,
psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Analyze \An"a*lyze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Analyzed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Analyzing.] [Cf. F. analyser. See Analysis.]
1. To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into
its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for
the purpose of an examination of each separately; to
examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or
nature of the thing examined; to consider in detail in
order to discover essential features or meaning; as, to
analyze an action to ascertain its morality; to analyse a
sonnet by Shakespeare; to analyse the evidence in a
criminal trial; to analyse your real motives.
Syn: analyze, study, examine
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
No one, I presume, can analyze the sensations of
pleasure or pain. --Darwin.
[1913 Webster]
2. make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of;
break down into components or essential features; as, to
analyse a specimen; to analyze a fossil substance; to
analyze a sentence or a word; to analyse a chemical
compound.
Syn: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. subject to psychoanalytic treatment. I was analysed in
Vienna by a famous psychiatrist
Syn: analyze, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse.
[WordNet 1.5]