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Dissect vs Analyze - What's the difference?

dissect | analyze |

In transitive terms the difference between dissect and analyze

is that dissect is to analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts while analyze is 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.

dissect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
  • To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.
  • To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
  • (transitive, anatomy, surgery) To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
  • Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.
  • (pathology) Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
  • Derived terms

    * dissection

    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