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Analyze vs Reanalyze - What's the difference?

analyze | reanalyze |

As verbs the difference between analyze and reanalyze

is that analyze is to subject to analysis while reanalyze is analyze again.

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

    Related terms

    * analysis * analyst * analytic / analytical

    reanalyze

    English

    Verb

  • analyze again
  • (linguistics) Analyze a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by misunderstanding. For example, hamburger'', which is originally ''Hamburg'' + ''-er'', was reanalyzed as ''ham'' + ''-burger'', which produced words like ''cheeseburger .

    • Derived terms

    *reanalysis