analysing

Meanings

1. 1verbtransitiveBritish

   Examining something carefully and in detail by breaking it into parts in order to understand or explain it.

   Grammar: Takes an object: analysing the data.

   Patterns

   • analysing something
   • analysing how something works

   She spent the weekend analysing the survey results.

   The team is analysing how customers use the app.

   Scientists are analysing samples from the river.

2. 2verbtransitivespecialist

   Studying a person's thoughts or feelings in order to understand them, as in therapy.

   Grammar: Often takes a person or behavior as object: analysing his dreams.

   Patterns

   • analysing someone's something

   The therapist was analysing her dreams.

   Stop analysing everything I say.

   He keeps analysing his own motives.

Common combinations

analysing data

Analysing data takes patience.

analysing results

We are analysing results from the trial.

carefully analysing

She was carefully analysing the contract.

analysing a problem

Analysing a problem helps you find its cause.

Synonyms and how they differ

examining

Examining means looking closely but does not always involve breaking things into parts.

studying

Studying is broader and can mean learning, not only dissecting.

evaluating

Evaluating means judging value or quality, while analysing explains how something works.

dissecting

Dissecting is more intense and can suggest cutting apart physically or in great detail.

Opposites

Word family

analyse verb

to examine in detail

analysis noun

detailed examination

analyst noun

a person who analyses

analytical adjective

using careful reasoning

Commonly confused: analysing or analyzing? analysing or analysis?

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