Persuade vs Analyze - What's the difference?
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To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. Compare sway.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 10, author=Jeremy Wilson, work=Telegraph
, title= To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
* (Bible), 2 (w) xviii. 32
* 1834 , (w),
(obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
* (Bible), (w) vi. 9
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.
In transitive terms the difference between persuade and analyze
is that persuade is to successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. Compare sway 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.persuade
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Alternative forms
* perswade (obsolete)Verb
(persuad)- That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
- We will persuade him, be it possible.
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.}}
- Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you.
A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p. 34:
- He persuaded me to go home, but I refused.
- Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you.