dissecting

Speech parts

1. dissecting - Noun

2. dissecting - Adjective

3. dissecting - Verb

Meaning

of Dissect

Dividing or separating the parts of an animal or vegetable body; as, a dissecting aneurism, one which makes its way between or within the coats of an artery.

Of or pertaining to, or received during, a dissection; as, a dissecting wound.

Used for or in dissecting; as, a dissecting knife; a dissecting microscope.

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. E. B. White

The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric. Maynard James Keenan

If we delight in gossip, and are not content unless each neighbor is laid upon the dissecting table, we form a character unenviable indeed, and must be willing to bear the contempt of all the truly good, while we roll our bit of scandal as a sweet morsel under the tongue. William Jennings Bryan

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it. Mark Twain

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. Neil Patrick Harris

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew. Annie Baker

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