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analyze |anlz| (Brit.analyse) verb [ with obj.

examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of (something, esp.


information), typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation: we need to
analyze our results more clearly.
discover or reveal (something) through detailed examination: I intend to
analyze the sexism in such texts | [ with clause ] : he tried to analyze exactly
what was going on.
psychoanalyze (someone).
identify and measure the chemical constituents of (a substance or specimen).
Grammar resolve (a sentence) into its grammatical elements; parse.

DERIVATIVES
analyzable |anlzbl| adjective.
analyzer noun
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: influenced by French analyser, from medieval Latin analysis
(see analysis) .

approach |prCH| verb [ with obj. ]


1. come near or nearer to (someone or something) in distance: the train
approached the main line | [ no obj. ] : she hadn't heard him approach | (as
adj. approaching) : an approaching car.
come near or nearer to (a future time or event): he was
approaching retirement.
[ no obj. ] (of a future time) come nearer: the time is
approaching when you will be destroyed.
come close to (a number, level, or standard) in quality or
quantity: the population will approach 12 million by the end of
the decade.
archaic bring nearer: all those changes shall serve to approach
him the faster to the blest mansion.
2. speak to (someone) for the first time about something, typically with a
proposal or request: the department had been approached about funding.
3. start to deal with (something) in a certain way: one must approach the matter
with caution.
Noun

1. a way of dealing with something: we need a whole new approach to the job.
2. an act of speaking to someone for the first time about something, typically a proposal
or request: the landowner made an approach to the developer.
(approaches) dated behavior intended to propose personal or sexual relations
with someone: feminine resistance to his approaches.
3. [ in sing. ] the action of coming near or nearer to someone or something in distance or
time: the approach of winter.
(approach to) an approximation to something: the past is impossible to recall
with any approach to accuracy.
the part of an aircraft's flight in which it descends gradually toward an airfield
or runway for landing.
4. (usu. approaches) a road, sea passage, or other way leading to a place: the eastern
approach to the town.

ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French aprochier, aprocher, from ecclesiastical Latin
appropiare draw near, from ad- to + propius (comparative of prope near).

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