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disseminate

verb
/dɪˈsɛmɪˌneɪt/CA/dɪˈsemɪˌnæɪt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissēminātus, the perfect passive participle of dissēminō (“to broadcast, disseminate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from dis- (“asunder, in all directions”) + sēminō (“to plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See also Middle English disseminat(e) (“disseminated”).

  1. borrowed from dissēminātus

Definitions

  1. To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and…

    To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.

  2. To become widespread.

    • The values of the human rights movement have disseminated throughout the world.

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Derived

autodisseminate, disseminatable, disseminative, disseminator, disseminatory, redisseminate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disseminate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disseminate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at disseminate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA