Summary vs. Analysis — What's the Difference?

A brief statement mentioning the main points of something

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").

Prose that provides information in a condensed format, as by mentioning only the most significant details of a narrative

Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something

Presenting the substance in a condensed form; concise

Short for psychoanalysis

Performed speedily and without ceremony

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

Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form

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

Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.

A spoken or written presentation of such study

(legal) Performed by skipping the procedures of a standard and fair trial.

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

An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

The stated findings of such a separation or determination.

Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.

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

Hence, rapidly performed; quickly executed; as, a summary process; to take summary vengeance.

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.

A general or comprehensive statement; an abridged account; an abstract, abridgment, or compendium, containing the sum or substance of a fuller account.

(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.

A briefstatement that presents the main points in a concise form;

Psychoanalysis.

Performed speedily and without formality;

Systems analysis.

Briefly giving the gist of something;

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

(countable) The result of such a process.

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;