Definition of Dissect

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Dissect

To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their structure and relations; to anatomize.

To analyze, for the purposes of science or criticism; to divide and examine minutely.

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Dissect Quotations

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
Bob Saget

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
Bob Saget

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.
Alison Bechdel

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
Joshua Lederberg

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
Chris Hedges

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
Benjamin Whorf

Dissect Translations

dissect in Dutch is doorsnijden, sectie verrichten
dissect in French is sectionner
dissect in German is seziere, aufgliedern, aufgliedern, sezieren
dissect in Latin is perseco
dissect in Spanish is disecar
dissect in Swedish is dissikera, obducera

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