Assess vs. Analysis — What's the Difference?

To determine the value, significance, or extent of; appraise.

Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), though analysis as a formal concept is a relatively recent development.The word comes from the Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (analysis, "a breaking-up" or "an untying;" from ana- "up, throughout" and lysis "a loosening").

To estimate the value of (property) for taxation.

Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something

To set or determine the amount of (a payment, such as a tax or fine).

Short for psychoanalysis

To charge (a person or property) with a special payment, such as a tax or fine.

The separation of an intellectual or material whole into its constituent parts for individual study.

(Sports) To charge (a player, coach, or team) with a foul or penalty.

The study of such constituent parts and their interrelationships in making up a whole.

(transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate

A spoken or written presentation of such study

(transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.

The separation of a substance into its constituent elements to determine either their nature (qualitative analysis) or their proportions (quantitative analysis).

(transitive) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.

The stated findings of such a separation or determination.

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

A branch of mathematics principally involving differential and integral calculus, sequences, and series and concerned with limits and convergence.

To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.

The method of proof in which a known truth is sought as a consequence of a series of deductions from that which is the thing to be proved.

To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents.

(Linguistics) The use of function words such as prepositions, pronouns, or auxiliary verbs instead of inflectional endings to express a grammatical relationship; for example, the cover of the dictionary instead of the dictionary's cover.

To fix or determine the rate or amount of.

Psychoanalysis.

Place a value on; judge the worth of something;

Systems analysis.

Charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine

(countable) Decomposition into components in order to study (a complex thing, concept, theory etc.).

Set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)

(countable) The result of such a process.

Estimate the value of (property) for taxation;

The mathematical study of functions, sequences, series, limits, derivatives and integrals.

Proof by deduction from known truths.

The process of breaking down a substance into its constituent parts, or the result of this process.

The analytical study of melodies, harmonies, sequences, repetitions, variations, quotations, juxtapositions, and surprises.

Psychoanalysis.

A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.

A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.

An investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

The abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations

A form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed

The use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'

A branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation

A set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud;