Analyze vs Brainstorm - What's the difference?
analyze | brainstorm |
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.
(US) A sudden thought, particularly one that solves a long-standing problem.
brainstorming
(British) An unexpected mental error.
*2005, "Iguchi hit ruins Red Sox's night",
To investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming.
To participate in a brainstorming session.
As verbs the difference between analyze and brainstorm
is that analyze is to subject to analysis while brainstorm is to investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming.As a noun brainstorm is
(us) a sudden thought, particularly one that solves a long-standing problem.analyze
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Alternative forms
* analyse (Commonwealth except Canada)Verb
(analyz)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, psychoanalysebrainstorm
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Noun
(en noun)- I had been working on the problem for weeks, and then I had a brainstorm and saw that the solution was easy.
BBC Online, 5 October
- A terrible fielding error from Tony Graffanino proved costly. [...] Aaron Rowand collected an RBI double to get them off the mark before Graffanino's brainstorm . Juan Uribe hit a roller to the second baseman, who let the potential inning-ending double-play ball roll under his glove, leaving runners at first and third bases.