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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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Etymology of 'Distributed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Distributed" Quotes from Famous Books

... head of the State being purely decorative, and possessing no power, it is impossible to attribute to him the evils from which the country may suffer, and to feel sure that matters would be different were he overthrown. Finally, as the supreme power is distributed among thousands of hands, responsibilities are so disseminated that it would be difficult to know where to begin. A tyrant can be overthrown, but what can be done against a host of little ...

— The Psychology of Revolution • Gustave le Bon

... Mark, the missionary,—for so he was called—and two other natives, went in the boat. Instead of pulling at once for the beach, the missionary begged to be landed at a point where some trees grew. From these he cut down some branches and distributed them among the party, when the boat was steered in for the place where the natives were collected. The branches were waved as the boat approached the beach, when the natives were seen cutting down branches and waving them ...

— Washed Ashore - The Tower of Stormount Bay • W.H.G. Kingston

... once more of London, where a series of Ten Readings was given in the St. James's Hall, Piccadilly. These ten Readings, beginning on Thursday, the 13th of March, were distributed over sixteen weeks, ending on Friday, the 27th of June. Another metropolitan series, still under Mr. Headland's management, was given as nearly as possible at the same period of the London season in the following twelvemonth. The Hanover Square Booms were the scene of these Readings ...

— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent

... Exposition itself a printed sheet has been distributed, entitled "La Marseillaise de la Paix." It was printed by the associated compositors in the office of M.A. Chaix, who has recently organized his establishment so that a share in the profits is accorded to the workers. The ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various

... management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed ...

— From Farm House to the White House • William M. Thayer

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