different between analyze vs overanalyze
analyze
English
Alternative forms
- analyse (Commonwealth including sometimes Canada)
Etymology
Back-formation from analysis, from French analyser, from analyse, from Medieval Latin analysis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (análusis, “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”), from ?????? (analú?, “to unloose, release, set free”), from ??? (aná, “on, up, above, throughout”) + ????? (lúsis, “a loosening”), from ??? (lú?, “to unfasten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æn.?.la?z/
- Hyphenation: an?a?lyze
Verb
analyze (third-person singular simple present analyzes, present participle analyzing, simple past and past participle analyzed) (American spelling)
- (transitive) To subject to analysis.
- (transitive) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
- (transitive) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
- (transitive) To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
Usage notes
- According to the third edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage, both analyze and the British spelling analyse are equally indefensible from an etymological perspective. The correct but now impossible form should have been *analysize.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- analysis
- analyst
- analytic / analytical
Translations
analyze From the web:
- what analyze mean
- what analyzes patterns in data
- what analyze table in oracle
- what does analyze mean
overanalyze
English
Etymology
over- +? analyze
Verb
overanalyze (third-person singular simple present overanalyzes, present participle overanalyzing, simple past and past participle overanalyzed)
- To analyze too much or in too much detail.
Translations
overanalyze From the web:
- what over analyze means
- what does over analyze mean
- what does overanalyze
- what is overanalyze things
- what does it mean to over analyze things
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