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verb

Distribute v. t. (past & past part. distributed; pres. part. distributing)

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."

To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.

To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.

(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.

(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.

adjective

distributed adj.

Spread from a central location to multiple points or recipients. Opposite of concentrated. (Narrower terms: apportioned, dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out; diffuse, diffused; dispensed; dispersed, spread; divided, divided up, shared, shared out on the basis of a plan or purpose); encyclical; rationed; scattered, widespread; sparse, thin; unfocused, unfocussed) Also See: distributive.

Spread among a variety of securities; of investments.

Synonyms: diversified. "Distributing to the necessity of saints."

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"Distributed" Quotes from Famous Books

... attended the maneuver; and it was fortunate that the party had no firearms, these having been distributed among the main body with the cattle, for they were within forty yards of Mr. Hardy before they were seen. It was, in fact, a repetition of the maneuver which had proved so successful in their ...

— On the Pampas • G. A. Henty

... the situation of the King's Government from 1816 to 1820, but even this was not regularly and powerfully established. Badly distributed amongst the actors, the characters were doubtfully filled in the interior of this new and uncertain party of the centre, on whom the government, through necessity, devolved. The principal portion of the heads of the majority in the Chambers ...

— Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time - Volume 1 • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... no great work can be accomplished, without due regard paid to magnetisms; and in organization, we must take care that they are harmoniously distributed. I find that I now assume relations with every individual according to these subtile laws. You see ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... different bows to these three people. A bow of homage to Sir Leicester, a bow of gallantry to Volumnia, and a bow of recognition to the debilitated Cousin, to whom it airily says, "You are a swell about town, and you know me, and I know you." Having distributed these little specimens of his tact, Mr. Bucket rubs ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... a glorious, keen November morning, and sixty troopers of the old regiment were distributed along a spur that crossed, almost at right angles, the line of the Indian trail. Sixty fur-capped, rough-coated fellows, with their short brown carbines in hand, crouching behind rocks and fallen trees, keeping close to cover and warned to utter silence. Behind them, two hundred yards ...

— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King

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