What is the meaning of analyze?

verb

• Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.
  • usage: "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"
  • synonyms: analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas
• Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features.
  • usage: "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"
  • synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart
• Break down into components or essential features.
  • usage: "analyze today's financial market"
  • synonyms: analyse
• Subject to psychoanalytic treatment.
  • usage: "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"
  • synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse