distribute
verbEtymology
PIE word *tréyes From Latin distributus, past participle of distribuere (“to divide, distribute”), from dis- (“apart”) + tribuere (“to give, impart”); see tribute.
- derived from distributus
Definitions
To divide into portions and dispense.
- He distributed the bread amongst his followers.
To supply to retail outlets.
- The agency distributes newspapers to local shops.
To deliver or pass out.
- A network of children distributes flyers to every house.
- Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a cheaper way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs.
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To scatter or spread.
- I raked the soil then distributed grass seed.
- The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
To apportion (more or less evenly).
- The robot's six legs distributed its weight over a wide area.
- With an election not much more than a year away, distributing HS2's money into roads is pork barrel politics. Or at least it would be if the money existed.
To classify or separate into categories.
- The database distributed verbs into transitive and intransitive segments.
To be distributive.
- Multiplication distributes over addition.
To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
To employ (a term) in its whole extent
To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to.
To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- distributed business; distributed employee
The neighborhood
- synonymdispend
- synonymparcel out
- synonymsparble
- synonymstrew
- synonymdisperse
- synonymsort
- synonymclassify
- synonymadminister
- synonymallocate
- synonymapportion
- synonymdeal
- synonymdeal out
- antonymamass
- antonymconcentrate
- antonymconsolidate
- antonymgather
- antonymreassemble
- neighbordisseminate
- neighborgive
- neighborseparate
- neighborspread
- neighborration
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at distribute. 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.
A definitional loop anchored at distribute. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at distribute
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