Disseminate

Definition: Disseminate

Disseminate

Verb

1. Cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news".

Date "disseminate" was first used: 1603. (references)

Note: Disseminate \Dis*sem"i*nate\, transitive and intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Disseminated; present participle verb or noun Disseminating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Disseminate

Synonyms: broadcast (v), circularise (v), circularize (v), circulate (v), diffuse (v), disperse (v), distribute (v), pass around (v), propagate (v), spread (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Nonassemblage Dispersion	Verb: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse.
Publication	Verb: publish; make public, make known; (information); speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice.
Teaching	Inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The R.A. Bloch Building, donated to the National Cancer Institute by several American businessmen is now the home of PDQ, an information service for physicians. The International Cancer Information Center (ICIC), the technical information office, and the JNCI staff. The building was dedicated in October 1983. The physician's data query, PDQ, is a new computerized information system developed by the National Cancer Institute to disseminate up-to-date information on cancer treatment. Using state-of-the-art computers, PDQ makes recent advances in cancer treatment readily available to physicians nationwide. Credit: Lew Bass (photographer).
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Disseminate consensus recommendations to health professionals. (references)
		Lyme disease spirochetes disseminate from the site of the tick bite by cutaneous, lymphatic and blood borne routes. (references)
		Mass media campaigns, educational posters, and brochures should all be utilized to disseminate information about the importance of regular self- and professional-initiated skin examinations. (references)
Business		The Camara de la Construcci�n is working hard to encourage their members to take advantage of the Internet to disseminate information on their potential. (references)
		There is also a network of Organizations for the Promotion of Energy Technologies (OPETs), which is an initiative of the European Commission that aims to disseminate information on, and promote the benefits of, new innovative energy technologies. (references)
Children	Kyrgyz Republic	The Government and its Commission continued to disseminate information regarding children's rights among both children and adults. (references)
	Kyrgyz Republic	The Ministries of Justice, Education, Culture, and Health as well as the state television and radio company and various NGO's also helped disseminate such information including by translating information into Kyrgyz, Russian, and Uzbek in order to reach those segments of the population that speak different languages. (references)
Civil Liberties	Algeria	Opposition parties also disseminate information via the Internet and comuniques. (references)
Economic History	Bulgaria	This law prohibits advertisements which disseminate misleading information to consumers or malign the reputation of competitors. (references)
	Uae	Moreover, private sector institutions, including banks and foreign oil companies, are not allowed to disseminate statistics to the public. (references)
	Uruguay	Public Announcements are issued as a means to disseminate information quickly about terrorist threats and other relatively short-term conditions overseas which pose significant risks to the security of American travelers. (references)
Human Rights	Jordan	Domestic and international human rights groups investigate allegations of human rights abuses and publish and disseminate findings critical of government policy. (references)
Indigenous People	Mexico	However, the ICRC's program emphasized prevention and included a training program for community midwives in the displaced communities, who also can disseminate more general health messages. (references)
Trade	Philippines	FCS and Exim will cooperate to disseminate information on Eximbank programs. (references)
Worker Rights	Bangladesh	Action Against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children (ATSEC), a national antitrafficking network, recently began to implement several antitrafficking activities; including linking NGO's and Government entities into a strong partnership, establishing a focal point for moving the national anti-trafficking agenda forward, establishing a resource center to disseminate data on the subject, and providing technical support to grassroots organizations. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Disseminate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 71.67% of the time. "Disseminate" is used about 120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	71.67%	86	35,638
Lexical Verb (base form)	17.5%	21	76,261
Adjective (general or positive)	10.83%	13	97,576
Total	100.00%	120	N/A

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Language		Translations for "disseminate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), përhap (bruit, delate, develop, diffuse, dilate, distribute, introduce, let out, permeate, promulgate, propagate, radiate, slop, spread, start, Ted, transmit). (various references)

Arabic		‏نثر (besprinkle, disperse, distribute, drill, intersperse, outwit, prose, scatter, sow, sowing, sown, sprinkle, strew, strewing, yank), ‏نشر أفكار, ‏نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap), ‏إنتثر (scatter), ‏بذر (blow, dissipate, drill, fritter, inseminate, run through, sow, sowing, spend, squander, waste). (various references)

Bulgarian		разхвърлям (clutter, disject, litter, mess, muss, overspread), разнасям (carry, deliver, hawk, puff, set about, spread), разпространявам (broadcast, diffuse, disperse, generalize, overspread, promulgate, propagate, purvey, put about, tell around). (various references)

Chinese		散佈 , � �'� (back-propagation, Disseminated, Disseminating, Dissemination, Propagation, spread, spreading, spread-out). (various references)

Czech		popularizovat (popularize, vulgarize), šířit (diffuse, radiate, retail, widen). (various references)

Danish		disseminere. (various references)

Dutch		uitzaaien (sow), uitstrooien. (various references)

Esperanto		dissemigi (sow), dissemi. (various references)

Farsi		منتشرکردن (Broadcast, Broaden, Print, Propagate, Publish), تخم کاشتن . (various references)

Finnish		levittää (extend, lay out, propagate, spread, spread out). (various references)

French		disséminer, disséminer, semer, se disséminer, propager, parsemer. (various references)

German		verbreiten (bandy, blaze abroad, blazon, broadcast, broaden, bruit, circulate, circulation, diffuse, disperse, distribute, give off, hawk about, let off, peddle, promulgate, propagate, put about, radiate, shed, spread, spread about, spread around, to bandy, to bruit, to diffuse, to disseminate, utter, vulgarize). (various references)

Greek		διασπείρω (intersperse, propagate, scatter). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"פיץ (circulate, disperse, distribute, promulgate, propagate, scatter, sow, spread), ל�"רביץ (beat, cause to sit down, hit, smack, spank, sprinkle, strike). (various references)

Hungarian		elterjeszt (promulgate, scatter, set about, spread, to disperse, to disseminate, to generalize, to put about, to scatter, to universalize), elszór (to distribute, to scatter), elhint (to scatter). (various references)

Indonesian		menaburkan (broadcast, sow, strew). (various references)

Italian		disseminare (scatter, spread, strew), diffondere (air, carry, diffuse, disperse, dwell, popularise, popularize, release, scatter, shed, spread, waft), desseminare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		散�'"く (to disseminate, to give money freely, to scatter), 散�'�く (to disseminate, to give money freely, to scatter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ばらまく (to disseminate, to give money freely, to scatter). (various references)

Korean		� �파하십시�". (various references)

Manx		skeaylley (bestrew, breed, cast loose, demobilization, diffract, diffuse, diffusion, disband, discharge, dismiss, dispel, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, draw apart, drop away, leakage, liquidate, looseness, release, resolution, resolve, run out, scatter, scattering, scramble, slacken, slackening, slip, spread, spreading, spring, sprinkle, sprinkling, undoing, unfix, unfurl, unfurling), cuirr (dissemination, grow, implant, invite, let down, plan, set, shoot, shoot as nets, sow). (various references)

Pig Latin		isseminateday

Portuguese		espalhar (bestrew, blow, buzz, diffuse, disperse, distributed, drift, drop, fledge, fleece, fling, intersperse, noise, overblown, overspread, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, retail, rumor, rumour, run through, scatter, send, sow, spill, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew), disseminar (promulgate, radiate, scatter, sow). (various references)

Romanian		difuza (broadcast, distribute, irradiate, propagate, scatter, spread, strew), semãna (approach, be alike, look lite, resemble, seed, sow, spread, take after), rãspândi (broadcast, carry, cast, circulate, disperse, distribute, Dot, emit, fling, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, promulgate, propagate, radiate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw), propaga (propagate, spread), împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, dissipate, distribute, effuse, exude, fling, propagate, scatter, shoot out, spill, split up, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about, vanish). (various references)

Russian		распространять (broadcast, circulate, circulated, delate, diffuse, dilate, disperse, disseminating, distribute, outspread, propagate, put about, shed, spread). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razneti (carry off), rasprostraniti, raširiti (broaden, diffuse, fill, propagate, splay, spread, spread out, unfold, unfurl, widen). (various references)

Spanish		diseminar (put about, put around, put out). (various references)

Swedish		sprida ut (bewray, broadcast, outspread, scatter). (various references)

Turkish		yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), tohum ekmek (drill, seed, sow), saçmak (besprinkle, bestrew, broadcast, distribute, eradiate, irradiate, lash out on, radiate, scatter, sow, spill, spit, splutter, sprinkle, strew, throw out). (various references)

Ukrainian		украплювати, розкидати (bestrew, blow about, disject, disperse, fling about, overspread, scatter, strew, throw about), розповсюджувати (overspread). (various references)

Welsh		lledaenu (circulate, spread), hau (sow). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	disseminabatur, disseminabo, disseminabunt, disseminatum, disseminavero, lupus erythematosus disseminatus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "disseminate": disseminated, disseminates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Disseminate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deceminate, decemlineata, decemvirate, deseminate, desseminate, disceminate, disemanate, diseminate, disemminate, disiminate, dissemanate, disseminat, dissemintae, dissemminate, dissemnate, disserminate, dissiminate, dyseminate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "disseminate" (pronounced di'se"munā't)
7	-s e" m u n ā' t	inseminate.
6	-e" m u n ā' t	emanate.
5	-m u n ā' t	contaminate, culminate, decontaminate, denominate, determinate, discriminate, dominate, eliminate, exterminate, fulminate, germinate, illuminate, incriminate, nominate, predominate, renominate, ruminate, terminate.
4	-u n ā' t	agglutinate, alienate, assassinate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, decaffeinate, detonate, fascinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, hyphenate, impersonate, indoctrinate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, resonate, subordinate, titanate, urinate.
3	-n ā' t	designate, donate, hibernate, impregnate, reincarnate, stagnate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-m-n-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: adenitises.
	-2 letters: amenities, amnestied, amnesties, andesites, dementias, demitasse, densities, destinies, meatiness, misseated, sanitised, sediments, timidness.
	-3 letters: adenitis, amidines, andesite, animists, aniseeds, assented, dainties, dementia, destains, destines, diamines, diastems, distains, enmities, etamines, etesians, insisted, isatines, itemised, itemises, mantises, matinees, matiness, mediants, mediates, mindsets, misdates, miseaten, misedits, mistends, sandiest, sanities, sanitise, seamiest, sediment, seedsman, sensated.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-m-n-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: disseminated, disseminates.
	+2 letters: immediateness, pedestrianism.
	+3 letters: credentialisms, meditativeness, pedestrianisms, sedimentations.
	+4 letters: aminopeptidases, idiomaticnesses, immediatenesses, indomitableness, lymphadenitises, rudimentariness, sentimentalised, unmitigatedness.
	+5 letters: dimensionalities, disestablishment, disfranchisement, intermediateness, meditativenesses, underestimations.
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