different between solve vs analyze

English

Etymology

From Latin solv?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?lv/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?lv/, /s?lv/

Verb

solve (third-person singular simple present solves, present participle solving, simple past and past participle solved)

1. To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.

   • True piety would effectually solve such scruples.

   • 1649, Thomas Tickell, Thoughts occasioned by the sight of an original picture of King Charles I taken at the time of his trial

     God shall solve the dark decrees of fate.
2. (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.
3. (mathematics) To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions.
4. (transitive) To loosen or separate the parts of.

Derived terms

• resolve
• solvable
• solution

Related terms

Translations

Noun

solve (plural solves)

1. (now rare, chiefly law enforcement) A solution; an explanation.
   • 2014 February 4, The Party, Gil Ozeri and Gabe Liedman (writers), Michael Engler (director), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 1, episode 16:

     KEVIN: I decided a long time ago that just because I love Raymond, doesn't mean I have to love the people he works with. Good solve, Detective.

   • 2017, Elodia Strain, The Dating Experiment (?ISBN):

     “Hey, Mr. Quilt Bandit.”
     Ian smiled. “Nice solve, Nancy Drew.”

Anagrams

• Loves, loves, slove, voles, voëls

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l.ve/
• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

solve

1. third-person singular present indicative of solvere

Anagrams

• svelo, svelò, volse

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sol.u?e/, [?s????u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sol.ve/, [?s?lv?]

Verb

solve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of solv?

References

• solve in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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)

1. (transitive) To subject to analysis.
2. (transitive) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
3. (transitive) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
4. (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

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