Difference between Dissect and Break Down

DISSECT vs BREAK DOWN: NOUN

Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly.
To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
Cut open or cut apart

Make ineffective
Cause to fall or collapse
Lose control of one's emotions
Make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features
Separate (substances) into constituent elements or parts
Fall apart
Stop operating or functioning
To fail, to cease to function
To render or to become unstable due to stress, to collapse physically or mentally
To render or to become weak and ineffective
(to cause) to decay, to decompose
To divide into parts to give more details, to provide a more indepth analysis of
To digest
Collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack

To cut apart or separate (tissue), especially for anatomical study.
To examine, analyze, or criticize in minute detail.
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.

In geology, to cut up or erode (a plateau, mountain, etc.) into numerous irregular valleys or ravines: as, a dissected plateau; a dissected mountain-range.
To cut in pieces; divide into parts with or as with a cutting instrument: as, to dissect a fowl. Specifically
2. To cut in pieces, or separate the distinct or elementary parts of, as an animal or a plant, for the purpose of studying its organization or the functions and morbid affections of its organs and tissues; anatomize.
To examine part by part or point by point; treat or consider piecemeal; analyze, as for the purpose of criticism; describe in detail: as, to dissect a man's character.

Visualize, Evaluate, Recapitulate, Explicate, Elucidate, Decipher, Delve, Summarize, Scrutinize, Examine, Deconstruct, Take apart, Break down, Analyse, Analyze

Give way, Give out, Conk out, Break, Tumble, Go, Collapse, Crumble, Crush, Fail, Die, Crumple, Analyze, Dissect, Analyse

Expound, Evaluate, Recapitulate, Explicate, Elucidate, Decipher, Delve, Summarize, Scrutinize, Examine, Deconstruct, Take apart, Break down, Analyse, Analyze

Destroy, Decompose, Parse, Take apart, Give way, Give out, Conk out, Break, Tumble, Crumble, Crush, Die, Analyze, Dissect, Analyse

As digital consultants we poke, prod and dissect.
We are going to dissect this black dot.
Systems biology approaches to dissect mammalian innate immunity.
Read, and even dissect, your sentences after writing.
My kids dissect virtual frogs in science class.
Dissect a roasted peanut or soaked lima bean.
Students are required to dissect the human body.
There are two game modes: Dissect and Reconstruct.
So it would be hard for me, I think, to dissect in the same way I can dissect a poem by Dickinson.
Teacher dissect teacher dissect a music project study proposal.

Divisions in feministland break down on humanimal lines.
Use monthly increments to break down your timeline.
One theory is that vinegar interferes with the digestion of carbohydrates by blocking enzymes that break down them down.
Cooking breaks down the crystal structure of starches, making them much easier to break down in the human body.
On the Vehicle break downs, keep information on the mechanics and break down services handy.
Break down furniture that will be too large to fit through doorways, down staircases, or inside elevators.
Just as Kybella breaks down dietary fats, it also can break down unwanted fat under the skin.
They will break down work structures, nail down schedules, and outline procurement plans.
You can plan to have your boat break down, but your car will likely not break down for a long time.
If the bacterium cannot break down lactose, they will have to break down amino acids produce energy.