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RELATED WORDS : credit analyst financial analyst industry analyst intelligence analyst market analyst oil-industry analyst securities analyst systems analyst

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun analyst has 3 senses

• analyst(n = noun.person) Array - someone who is skilled at analyzing data; Array
is a kind of expert
has particulars: assayer, intelligence analyst, systems analyst
Derived forms verb analyze₂, verb analyze₁

• analyst(n = noun.person) Array - an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions; Array
is a kind of expert
has particulars: credit analyst, financial analyst, securities analyst, industry analyst, market analyst
Derived form verb analyze₃

• analyst(n = noun.person) psychoanalyst - a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis; Array
is a kind of head-shrinker, psychiatrist, shrink
has particulars: freud, sigmund freud, klein, melanie klein, reich, wilhelm reich
Derived form verb analyze₄

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analyst

analyzer, assayer, behavior therapist, clinical psychologist, essayer, examiner, experimenter, headshrinker, hypnotherapist, narcotherapist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychoanalyzer, psychotherapeutist, psychotherapist, research worker, researcher, shrink, shrinker, test driver, test pilot, tester, tryer-out

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analyst

Inquiry

N inquiry, request, search, research, quest, pursuit, examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation, perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation, inquest, inquisition, exploration, exploitation, ventilation, sifting, calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction, Baconian method, strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry, narrow search, strict search, study, scire facias, ad referendum, trial, questioning, interrogation, interrogatory, interpellation, challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism, feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy, leading question, discussion, reconnoitering, reconnaissance, prying, espionage, espionnage, domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain, lantern of Diogenes, question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism, subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy, point in dispute, matter in dispute, moot point, issue, question at issue, bone of contention, plain question, fair question, open question, enigma, knotty point, quodlibet, threshold of an inquiry, inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist, scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer, analyst, quidnunc, inquiry, inquisitive, requisitive, requisitory, catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic, in search of, in quest of, on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic, all searching, undetermined, untried, undecided, in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry, under discussion, under consideration, under investigation, sub judice, moot, proposed, doubtful, quaere?, what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr?, what's in the wind?, what on earth?, when?, who?.

Experiment

N experiment, essay, analysis, screen, trial, tentative method, t=atonnement, verification, probation, experimentum crucis, proof, (demonstration), criterion, diagnostic, test, probe, crucial test, acid test, litmus test, crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix, assay, ordeal, ring, litmus paper, curcuma paper, turmeric paper, test tube, analytical instruments, empiricism, rule of thumb, feeler, trial balloon, pilot balloon, messenger balloon, pilot engine, scout, straw to show the wind, speculation, random shot, leap in the dark, analyzer, analyst, assayist, adventurer, experimenter, experimentist, experimentalist, scientist, engineer, technician, subject, experimentee, guinea pig, experimental animal, protocol, experimental method, blind experiment, double-blind experiment, controlled experiment, poll, survey, opinion poll, epidemiological survey, retrospective analysis, retrospective survey, prospective survey, prospective analysis, statistical analysis, literature search, library research, tryout, audition, discovery, measurement, evidence, deduction, induction, abduction, experimental, empirical, probative, probatory, probationary, provisional, analytic, docimastic, tentative, unverified, unproven, speculative, untested, on trial, under examination, on probation, under probation, on one's trial, on approval, check it out, give it a try, see how it goes, Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.

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