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Distribute   /dɪstrˈɪbjut/   Listen
verb
Distribute  v. t.  (past & past part. distributed; pres. part. distributing)  
1.
To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot. "She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred."
2.
To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.
3.
To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.
4.
(Printing)
(a)
To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
(b)
To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
5.
(Logic) 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."
Synonyms: To dispense; deal out; apportion; allot; share; assign; divide.


Distribute  v. i.  To make distribution.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... charitable organizations the foremost place belongs to the "Patriotic League of Greek Women," which, under the competent management of the Queen, was able to distribute 10,000 meals a day, as well as clothes, blankets, medicine, milk for ...
— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott
... Athens and the smaller towns of Attica, had won much booty, which was all sent to Sparta. The ephors refused at first to accept or distribute this gold, saying that the love of wealth was the root of all evil; but they finally decided to use it for the ...
— The Story of the Greeks • H. A. Guerber
... remembers, that, when only a boy of fourteen years, he was so much opposed to seeing colored men appear as minstrels, that he indignantly refused to comply when requested to post and otherwise distribute play-bills for a company of colored minstrels who were to appear in the town in which he lived; for he considered it alike disgraceful for them to thus appear, and himself to give aid to such appearance. He fully retained ...
— Music and Some Highly Musical People • James M. Trotter
... lungs, and branches out in them (Fig. 1). Finding that the greater part of this system of vessels was filled with air after death, this ancient thinker very shrewdly concluded that its real business was to receive air from the lungs, and to distribute that air all through the body, so as to get rid of the grosser humours and purify the blood. That was a very natural and very obvious suggestion, and a highly ingenious one, though it happened to be a great error. You will ...
— William Harvey And The Discovery Of The Circulation Of The Blood • Thomas H. Huxley
... comes gradually to a rest its cilia soon disappear, it becomes perfectly globular in shape, the inclosed granules distribute themselves evenly throughout its interior, and after a few hours it germinates by throwing out one, two, or sometimes three tubular prolongations, which become precisely like ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 • Various


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