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{
"term": "analyse",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "analyse",
"heSheIt": "analyses"
},
"pastSimple": "analysed",
"pastParticiple": "analysed",
"ingForm": "analysing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to examine the nature or structure of something, especially by separating it into its parts, in order to understand or explain it",
"sensetop": "analyse somethinganalyse something for somethinganalyse what, how, etc…",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The job involves collecting and **analysing data**.",
"contextForm": "analyse something"
},
{
"text": "Researchers have analysed the results in detail using specialist software."
},
{
"text": "Learn to step back and critically analyse situations."
},
{
"text": "He tried to analyse his feelings."
},
{
"text": "The first step is to define and analyse the problem."
},
{
"text": "The water samples will be analysed for the presence of polluting chemicals.",
"contextForm": "analyse something for something"
},
{
"text": "We need to analyse what went wrong.",
"contextForm": "analyse what, how, etc…"
}
],
"topics": ["Scientific research"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["carefully", "critically", "fully"],
"verb + analyse/analyze": ["attempt to", "try to", "be difficult to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to treat or study somebody using psychoanalysis",
"sensetop": "analyse somebody",
"labels": "(both British English)(both North American English)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈænəlaɪz/",
"audio": "an/analyse/analyse__gb_6.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈænəlaɪzɪz/",
"audio": "an/analyse/analyses__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈænəlaɪzd/",
"audio": "an/analyse/analysed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈænəlaɪzɪŋ/",
"audio": "an/analyse/analysing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈænəlaɪz/",
"audio": "an/analyse/analyse__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈænəlaɪzɪz/",
"audio": "an/analyse/analyses__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈænəlaɪzd/",
"audio": "an/analyse/analysed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈænəlaɪzɪŋ/",
"audio": "an/analyse/analysing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: influenced by French analyser, from medieval Latin analysis from Greek analusis, from analuein ‘unloose’, from ana- ‘up’ + luein ‘loosen’."
}