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reanalyze

verb
/ɹiːˈæn.ə.laɪz/UK/ɹiˈæn.ə.laɪz/US/ɹiːˈæn.ə.lɑɪz/

Etymology

From re- + analyze.

  1. derived from ἀνάλυσις — “a breaking up, a loosening, releasing”
  2. derived from analysis
  3. derived from analyser
  4. prefixed as reanalyze — “re + analyze”

Definitions

  1. To analyze again.

  2. To analyze a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by…

    To analyze a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by misunderstanding.

    • "SOS" has, in contemporary usage, been reanalyzed to stand for "save our souls".
    • Thus hamburger (whose true etymology is 'city of Hamburg' + er 'someone from') has been reanalyzed as ham + burger 'burger made with ham.'

The neighborhood

Derived

reanalyzable, reanalyzer

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reanalyze. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA