dissect

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Don't worry about that, because you're going to dissect it line by line.

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cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis"

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verb

cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis"

verb

make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dissect.

verb

cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis"

verb

make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"

Example sentences

Don't worry about that, because you're going to dissect it line by line.

Maybe you'll find that because you can dissect their logic that they hate arguing with you.

In fact as I sit here trying to dissect the idea so that I can attack it, it's just coming apart in my hands.

I don't have the expertise to dissect this code, so I will choose instead to criticize the name of the project.

While some of us may have had decades to dissect the polity of the world, yet new minds are today discovering the basics.

Somebody to curate and brutally dissect content for others to consume.

' You really need to open up a business from the inside, and dissect it to understand how it works, where the money goes, and what the leverage is of each of the individual pieces.

But understand that doing this sort of dissection gives you to knowledge of how to disrupt and that means the person sharing it with you, if they aren't already committed to joining the revolution, is writing their own death sentence.

I think I forgot to mention him in this post, but I remembered in the talk[1].If anyone's interested in this and where else it might go, I recommend read Don's SO answer[0], this SO question and the related answers[2] and these papers [3,4] on derivatives and dissections by Conor McBride.