Distribute
[dɪ'strɪbjuːt;'dɪstrɪbjuːt] or [dɪ'strɪbjut]
Definition
(verb.) give to several people; 'The teacher handed out the exams'.
(verb.) administer or bestow, as in small portions; 'administer critical remarks to everyone present'; 'dole out some money'; 'shell out pocket money for the children'; 'deal a blow to someone'; 'the machine dispenses soft drinks'.
(verb.) make available; 'The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia'.
(verb.) be mathematically distributive.
(verb.) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses; 'Values distribute'.
(verb.) spread throughout a given area; 'the function distributes the values evenly'.
Checked by Aurora--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
(v. t.) To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.
(v. t.) To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.
(v. t.) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
(v. t.) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
(v. t.) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
(v. i.) To make distribution.
Editor: Rena
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Apportion, assign, allot, dispense, mete, divide, share, parcel out, deal out, portion out.[2]. Classify, class, arrange, assort, dispose.
Inputed by Elliot
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DISPENSE]
Typist: Lolita
Definition
v.t. to divide amongst several: to deal out or allot: to classify: to give a logical term its fullest extension.—n. Distrib′uend that which is to be distributed.—adjs. Distrib′utable that may be divided; Distrib′utary distributing.—ns. Distrib′uter -or; Distribū′tion allotment: classification: the application of a general term to all the objects denoted by it.—adjs. Distribū′tional; Distrib′utive that distributes separates or divides: giving to each his own.—n. a word like each or every that indicates the several individuals of a number.—adv. Distrib′utively.—Geographical distribution the department of science that treats of the distribution of animals and plants over certain areas of the globe.
Typist: Martha
Examples
- These transplanters will dig the plant trench, distribute the fertiliser, set the plant, pack the earth and water the plant, automatically. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If people will print their abuses of one another, let them do it in little pamphlets, and distribute them where they think proper. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Well, as I was saying, the doctor distributed medicine as long as he had any to distribute, and his reputation is mighty in Galilee this day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the fervour of my zeal to distribute the letters, it never occurred to me to inquire about Rachel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The first part of Mrs. Gardiner's business on her arrival was to distribute her presents and describe the newest fashions. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It must be rooted out, and the community must take charge as a community, to produce, to distribute, as well as to control. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So the little boy you saw just now waltzes by himself in the empty kitchen, and we distribute the others over the house as well as we can. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The parts being thus distributed to the leaders, they commenced the first assault, of which the reader has already heard the issue. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In 1792 Murdoch erected a gas distilling apparatus, and lighted his house and offices by gas distributed through service pipes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The whole value of the great wheel of circulation and distribution is added to the goods which are circulated and distributed by means of it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The soldier with the basket soon got a light, and lighted three or four torches, and took one himself and distributed the others. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the silo it should be distributed evenly and probably had better be placed in regular layers, lapping shingle fashion so that it will settle evenly. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- How Heat is Distributed, Retained, and Moistened. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They are now distributed over nearly all the civilized parts of the world, but in large ponds they readily revert to the color of the original stock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To feed such giant presses the old hand method of setting and distributing type has grown much too slow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A series of holes can be punched round the lower edge of a fruit can, thus affording a distributing reservoir. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Large mechanical mixers are used, and, as it is made, the mixture is dumped into tanks, from which it is conveyed to a distributing tank on the top, or roof, of the form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their warehouses were the great distributing depots from whence the costly merchandise of the East was sent abroad over Europe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The invention of printing machines was preceded by the manufacture of inking rollers, to supersede the pelt balls for distributing the ink over the types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Consequently other means than the slow processes of nature to dry brick and other ceramics, and the crude kilns are giving way to modern heat distributing structures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Sasha