{
    "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’."
}