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Analyse vs Analyze - What's the difference?

analyse | analyze | Alternative forms |

Analyze is a related term of analyse.

Analyze is a alternative form of analyse.



As verbs the difference between analyse and analyze

is that analyse is standard spelling of from=British spelling|analyze|lang=en while analyze is to subject to analysis.

analyse

English

Verb

(analys)
  • ----

    analyze

    English

    Alternative forms

    * analyse (Commonwealth except Canada)

    Verb

    (analyz)
  • 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; 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 (w, 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 .

    Derived terms

    * analyzable, analysable * analyzability, analysability * analyzer, analyser * psychoanalyze, psychoanalyse