DISSECT


Meaning of DISSECT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ daɪsekt, dɪ- ]

( dissects, dissecting, dissected)

1.

If someone dissects the body of a dead person or animal, they carefully cut it up in order to examine it scientifically.

We dissected a frog in biology class.

VERB : V n

• dis‧sec‧tion

(dissections)

Researchers need a growing supply of corpses for dissection.

N-VAR

2.

If someone dissects something such as a theory, a situation, or a piece of writing, they consider and talk about each detail of it.

People want to dissect his work and question his motives.

VERB : V n

• dis‧sec‧tion

(dissections)

...her calm, condescending dissection of my proposals.

N-VAR : usu N of n

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