analyze to examine the nature or structure of something, especially by separating it into its parts, in order to understand or explain it: The job involves gathering and analyzing data.
The author carefully analyzes the regime's strengths and failings. We enjoyed discussing the movie, analyzing the characters and their motives. Forensic scientists are analyzing DNA and fingerprints found at the scene. Psychoanalytic training requires that the trainee should themselves be analyzed.
Analyzing and analysing are both English terms. Analyzing is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English (en-US) while analysing is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB). In the United States, there is a preference for " analyzing " over "analysing" (96 to 4).
analyze (third-person singular simple present analyzes, present participle analyzing, simple past and past participle analyzed) (American spelling) (transitive) To subject to analysis.
"Analyzing" is the preferred spelling in American English, used to describe the process of examining something methodically, while "analysing" is favored in British English.