Commentary: ANALYSIS[+event] Inspecting the individual parts of something, and their relation in making up a whole.
Examples:
The analysis of the DNA revealed that John was the killer.
I performed an analysis of the newspaper.
His clever analysis proved that the painting was a fraud.
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PropBank: analysis.01
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1 3
Commentary: The capacity to analyze, or the kind of thought that goes into analyzing things.
Examples:
Use your incredible powers of analysis to figure out what's going to happen next.
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PropBank: NM
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Commentary: Psychoanalysis. A set of techniques for uncovering motivation and promoting mental health.
Examples:
I've been undergoing analysis for three years, but I'm still afraid of spiders.
Analysis showed the patient to have some unresolved retention issues.
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PropBank: NM
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Commentary: A piece of critical writing, usually on literature.
Examples:
I published an analysis of Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'.
If you're going to graduate school for English, I hope you like writing literary analyses.
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PropBank: NM
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3
Commentary: The use of closed-class words instead of inflections; e.g. "the father of the bride" instead of "the bride's father". I have a feeling this is very rare.
Examples:
Use analysis if you want to sound more intelligent, and also if you hate inflections.
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PropBank: NM
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Commentary: A branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; also sequences, series, and differentiation.
Examples:
I'm taking a math class called "Calculus and Topics in Analysis".
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Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)
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PropBank: NM