Explain vs. Analyze — What's the Difference?

Make (an idea or situation) clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts

To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations.

To make plain or comprehensible.

(Chemistry) To make a chemical analysis of.

To define; expound

(Mathematics) To make a mathematical analysis of.

To offer reasons for or a cause of; justify

To psychoanalyze.

To offer reasons for the actions, beliefs, or remarks of (oneself).

(transitive) To subject to analysis.

To make something plain or comprehensible

(transitive) To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.

To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.

(transitive) To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.

To give a valid excuse for past behavior.

(transitive) To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

(obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.

To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; to consider in detail in order to discover essential features or meaning; as, to analyze an action to ascertain its morality; to analyse a sonnet by Shakespeare; to analyse the evidence in a criminal trial; to analyse your real motives.

(obsolete) To unfold or make visible.

Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; as, to analyse a specimen; to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyse a chemical compound.

(intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.

Subject to psychoanalytic treatment.

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning;

To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features;

To give an explanation.

Break down into components or essential features;

Make palin and comprehensible;

Subject to psychoanalytic treatment;

Define;

Serve as a reason or cause or justification of;