Analyze vs Characterize - What's the difference?
analyze | characterize |
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.
to depict someone or something a particular way (often negative)
to determine the characteristics of
* {{quote-book, passage=This glossary includes terminology used in coastal science, engineering, geology, management, nearshore oceanography and the technologies that characterize , measure, describe or quantify the physical properties, processes and changes of the coastal zone.
, title=Department of Ecology Publication No. 98-105
, chapter=Glossary of Coastal Terminology
, author=Brian Voigt
, year=1998
As verbs the difference between analyze and characterize
is that analyze is to subject to analysis while characterize is to depict someone or something a particular way (often negative.analyze
English
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, psychoanalysecharacterize
English
(Characterization)Alternative forms
* characteriseVerb
(characteriz)citation
