v.
1.consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
2.break down into components or essential features
3.make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of
4.subject to psychoanalytic treatment
Idiom of the Day
go off on a tangent
to suddenly change one's line of thought or course of action
The speaker suddenly went off on a tangent and began to speak about something totally different.