distribute
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[edit] English
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| wonderful | shook | fit | #945: distribute | ordinary | forms | complete |
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[edit] Verb
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to distribute (third-person singular simple present distributes, present participle distributing, simple past and past participle distributed)
- (transitive): To divide something into portions and dispense it.
- He distributed the bread amongst his followers.
- (transitive): To supply goods to retail outlets.
- The agency distributes newspapers to local shops.
- (transitive): To deliver or pass out something.
- A network of children distributes flyers to every house.
- (transitive): To scatter or spread something.
- I raked the soil then distributed grass seed.
- (transitive): To apportion (more or less evenly).
- The robot's six legs distributed its weight over a wide area.
- (transitive): To classify or separate into categories.
- The database distributed verbs into transitive and intransitive segments.
- (intransitive): (mathematics) To be distributive.
[edit] Translations
to divide something into portions and dispense it
to supply goods to retail outlets
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to deliver or pass out something
to scatter or spread something
to apportion
to classify or separate into categories
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[edit] Derived terms
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[edit] Etymology
From distribūtus, participle of distribuō (“‘distribute, apportion’”)
[edit] Adverb
distribūtē (comparative distribūtius, superlative distribūtissimē)
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[edit] References
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
