Distribute

Definition: Distribute

Distribute

Verb

1. Administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone".

2. Distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country".

3. Make available; "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia".

4. Give out freely.

5. Cause to be distributed; "This letter is circulating among the faculty".

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

7. To arrange in a stack or pile; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "distribute" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Distribute

Apportionment

Verb: apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot, detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve.

Arrangement

Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.

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.

Printing

Verb: print; compose; put to press, go to press; pass through the press, see through the press; publish; bring out; appear in print, rush into print; distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout.

Crosswords: Distribute

Hart would simply buy up all the copies and then distribute them as Christmas cards. (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

I only distribute pigs to early risers, and Fern was up at daylight trying to rid the world of injustice. (Charlotte's Web; writing credit: E.B. White; Earl Hamner Jr.)

They think they can distribute pamphlets and gold, and a vast monarchist army will materialize overnight. (Billion Dollar Brain; writing credit: Len Deighton; John McGrath)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Complete Guide to Making the Most of Video in Religious Settings: How to Produce, Find, Use and Distribute Video in the Church and Synagogue (reference)

• A Simple Guide to Self-Publishing: A Step-by-Step Handbook to Prepare, Print, Distribute & Promote Your Own Book - 3rd edition (reference)

• Formal Description Techniques, III: Proceedings of the Ifip Tc/Wg 6.1 Third International Conference on Formal Description Techniques for Distribute (reference)

• How to Publish, Market, and Distribute Your Own Books-- Realizing Greater Profits (reference)

• Information Technology on the Move: Technical and Behavioural Evaluations of Mobile Telecommunications (Wiley Series in Communication and Distribute) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Possession with Intent to Distribute (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Greenhill/East Timbalier dredge deposition -- backhoe is used to move pipe to evenly distribute the dredge material. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Dairy waste management--using the 'big-gun' effluent distribution system to distribute waste on pastures. Eastern Louisiana. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Manifolds distribute water to spray mister nozzles used for irrigating herbs in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

District Conservationist Edward Romero and Northwest Field Team Leader Norman Vigil inspect a recently installed headgate to distribute water to small acreages. This is a common practice in Northen New Mexico. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

U.S. Army Field Hospital No. 12, Vernaise, France. : Red Cross Nurses distribute chocolate and cigarettes. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[PHS workers distribute atabrine to FSA family during malaria prophylaxis studies in Jenkins County, Georgia]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. American National Red Cross : ARC canteen workers distribute tobacco to wounded soldiers. (note Balkan Frames). Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Production. Magnesium. A veritable forest of transmission towers and transformers distribute electrical power to the various units of Basic Magnesium's huge plant in the southern Nevada desert. Some units of this plant are now producing magnesium, lightes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

When an instrument organizing fundamentally a judicial system, divides it into one supreme, and so many inferior courts as the legislature may ordain and establish; then enumerates its powers, and proceeds so far to distribute them, as to define the jurisdiction of the supreme court by declaring the cases in which it shall take original jurisdiction, and that in others it shall take appellate jurisdiction; the plain import of the words seems to be, that in one class of cases its jurisdiction is original, and not appellate; in the other it is appellate, and not original. (reference)

In all matters of international interest which are regulated by general conventions but which are not placed under the control of international bureaux or commissions, the Secretariat of the League shall, subject to the consent of the Council and if desired by the parties, collect and distribute all relevant information and shall render any other assistance which may be necessary or desirable. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Our ambassadors should be instructed to send home such seeds as these, and Congress help to distribute them over all the land.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

NIDDK encourages users to duplicate and distribute as many copies as needed. (references)

The clearinghouse encourages users of this e-pub to duplicate and distribute as many copies as desired. (references)

Distribute educational materials through health professional organizations at their national and regional meetings. (references)

Business

Some distribute to domestic consumers. (references)

Some local integrators distribute imported solutions. (references)

The larger building products chains distribute higher quality items. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sweden

It also is illegal to publish or distribute such material. (references)

Turkmenistan

Unregistered religious groups face government harassment if they attempt to distribute religious literature. (references)

Austria

The Federal Office on Sects continued to collect and distribute information on organizations considered sects. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

This law also permits the private sector to distribute gas in cities. (references)

Mexico

Some American firms use a Mexican wholesaler to distribute their products. (references)

Ecuador

Companies must distribute at least 15% of pre-tax profits to their employees. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

The UNHCR staff had been invited to the camp to distribute shelter supplies when a machete-wielding man attacked them and a mob stoned them. (references)

Burma

In late August 2000, during the first 2 days of a 9-day political standoff, security forces refused to permit local residents to distribute food, water, or medicine to Aung San Suu Kyi and a number of her NLD colleagues; they also interfered with several subsequent deliveries of provision and did not allow Aung San Suu Kyi access to her doctor. (references)

Minorities

Ukraine

Some ultranationalist groups and newspapers continued to publish and distribute anti-Semitic tracts regularly. (references)

Political Economy

TUNISIA

Foreign companies cannot distribute products locally without a Tunisian distributor. (references)

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Government fiscal policies aim to distribute oil wealth to UAE nationals by a variety of means. (references)

CHINA

The Chinese have promised upon accession to allow foreign firms to distribute and service their own products made in China, and provide related services. (references)

Trade

Bolivia

Manufacturers may distribute products through international trade fairs. (references)

Luxembourg

Few distributors have the capability to effectively distribute a product or service in all fifteen member states. (references)

China

Local Agents: The ability of foreign firms to distribute directly their products in China is subject to strict limitations. (references)

Women

Niger

Clitoridectomy was the most common form of FGM. The Government worked closely with a local NGO, UNICEF, and other donors to develop and distribute educational materials at government clinics and maternal health centers. (references)

Worker Rights

Bulgaria

The Government cooperated to display posters and distribute cards and brochures at border checkpoints, police stations, schools, and other government facilities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "distribute": distribute among. Additional references.

Ending with "distribute": re-distribute.

Afrikaans

uitdeel (deal). (various references)

Albanian

shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deliver, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), pjesëtoj (dispart, divide, portion), përndaj (disperse, scatter, spread), përhap (bruit, delate, develop, diffuse, dilate, disseminate, introduce, let out, permeate, promulgate, propagate, radiate, slop, spread, start, Ted, transmit), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), klasifikoj (assort, categorize, classify, digest, distinguish, grade, group, label, range, rank, rate, separate, sort, sort out, type), kategorizoj (categorize, classify), hap (anatomize, cave, detect, dig, disclose, display, dissect, drive, expand, footstep, inaugurate, move, open, open up, pace, peg, pitch, remove, roll out, spread, start, step, stretch, strew, turn down, turn on, unblock, unbolt, unbosom, uncap, unclasp, unclench, unclose, uncork, uncover, undo, undraw, unfurl, unhook, unlatch, unlock, unreel, unseal, unshutter, unwrap, walk), grupoj (arrange in groups, assort, group). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرق (allot, apportion, be afraid, be scared, become afraid, deal out, difference, differentiate, diffuse, discrepancy, disperse, distinction, disunite, divide, give out, parcel out, part, scatter, section, separate, strew about, variance), ‏نثر (besprinkle, disperse, disseminate, drill, intersperse, outwit, prose, scatter, sow, sowing, sown, sprinkle, strew, strewing, yank), ‏نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, 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), ‏قسم (administration, allocate, allot, apportion, authority, bisect, break up, deal out, department, district, divide, division, give out, halve, parcel, part, partition, portion, portion out, region, section, segment, separate, service, share, share out, split, subdivide, swear, take an oath), ‏وزع (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, circulation, deal, deal out, deliver, diffuse, disburse, dispense, divide, dole out, hand out, issue, ladle, parcel, part, portion, seed, serve out), ‏صنف (article, assort, brand, categorize, category, class, classification, classify, compile, designate, digest, distinguish, grade, group, kind, label, pigeonhole, place, rank, rate, sort, species, stow, systematize, table, tabulate, type), ‏بوب (classify, distinguish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпръсквам (bestride, disject, intersperse, lay, spread, whiffle), разпределям (admeasure, allocate, allot, apportion, assort, deal out, dispense, give out, map out, measure, parcel out, part, plot, serve out, share out, slice, sort), раздавам (administer, administrate, allot, apportion, deal out, dispense, give away, give out, hand about, hand out, measure, mete out, parcel out, pass out), класифицирам (categorize, class, classify, grade, group, label, pigeonhole, range, rank, staple). (various references)

Chinese 

施 (to carry out, to do, to execute), 散髮 (emit, issue), 俵 , 分發 (distribution), 分散 (disperse, scatter), 分布 (Distributed, Distributing, distribution). (various references)

Czech

roznést (deliver, hawk, spread, tell abroad), rozložit (decompose, diffract, disassemble, disintegrate, resolve, spread, unfold), rozeslat (circulate), rozdìlit (allot, apportion, carve up, deal out, disjoin, dismember, dispense, dissever, divide, divide out, divide up, give away, hand around, hand out, parcel, parcel out, part, partition, portion, separate, share, split). (various references)

Danish

fordele (to allot). (various references)

Dutch

uitdelen (deal), rondgeven (deal), ronddelen (deal). (various references)

Esperanto

distribui, disdoni (deal). (various references)

Faeroese

býta út (deal). (various references)

Farsi 

پخش کردن (Diffuse, Dispread, Divide, Scatter, Shift, Spread, Strew), تقسیم کردن (Administer, Apportion, Compartment, Divide, Impute, Intersect, Sector), تعمیم دادن (Generalize). (various references)

Finnish

jakaa (deal, deliver, divide, divide split, give away, parcel out, portion out, separate, share), jaella (serve out). (various references)

French

distribuer (disburse, dispense), dispenser (dispense). (various references)

German

verteilen (allocate, allot, deal, deal out, deploy, dish out, dispense, disperse, divide, divide out, give away, give out, hand out, hand round, intersperse, lay out, quarter, scatter, separate, serve out, share, share out, spread, sprinkle, string out, to allot, to dispense, to distribute, to spread (out)), austeilen (administer, allot, deal, dish out, dispense, hand out, hand round, issue, parcel, to allot, to dispense, to give out, to hand out). (various references)

Greek 

μοιράζω (deal, dispense, divide, halve, hand out, pass out, share, share with, split), διανέμω (allocate, allot, apportion, deliver, dispense, divide, give out, mete). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחלק (apportion, dispense, divide, dole out, give out, hand out, parcel, part, partition, section, share, share out, sunder), ל�"פיץ (circulate, disperse, disseminate, promulgate, propagate, scatter, sow, spread). (various references)

Hungarian

terjeszt (propagandize, propagate, put about, strewed, strewn, to circulate, to diffuse, to hawk, to propagandize, to set afloat, to strew), szór (scatter, scintillate, sprinkle, strew, to diffuse, to disperse, to eject, to fritter away, to send forth, to sprinkle, to strew), szétoszt (decentralize, divide, hand out, mete, partition, to allot, to apportion, to branch, to dispense, to distribute, to divide, to divvy, to mete out, to partition, to portion out, to share out, to space, to space out), feloszt (apportion, break up, dismember, divide, divvy, parcel, partition, share out, subdivide, to allot, to apportion, to dislocate, to dismember, to distribute, to divide, to divide up, to divvy, to parcel out, to section out, to segment, to share out, to space, to space out, to split). (various references)

Indonesian

menyebarkan (deploy, scatter, strew), menyalurkan (dispense, drain), mencatu (ration), membagikan (allot, dispense, give away, share). (various references)

Italian

distribuire (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, deal out, deliver, dispense, impart, release, share, spread). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

散らす (to disperse, to distribute, to scatter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くばる (to deliver, to distribute), わりふる (to allot, to assess, to assign, to distribute, to divide among, to prorate), わりつける (to allot, to assign, to distribute, to divide among, to lay out), わりあてる (to allot, to assign, to distribute, to divide among, to prorate), わけあたえる (to distribute, to hand out), とりわける (to apportion, to distribute, to divide), ちらす (to disperse, to distribute, to scatter). (various references)

Korean 

배부하십시�". (various references)

Manx

rheynn (allocation, bill, break up; division, bureau, canto, class, classify, compartment, department, dichotomy, dismemberment, dispense, dissection, distribution, divide, form, graduate, graduation, mountain ridge, parcel of land, partition, portion, precinct, quota, ration, resolution, resolve, section, segmentation, share, sphere). (various references)

Norwegian

dele ut (dispensation), fordele. (various references)

Papiamen

distribuí. (various references)

Pig Latin

istributeday

Portuguese

distribuir (allocate, allot, deliver, dispart, dispense, dole out, give out, hand out, parcel, portion, serve, share, spread). (various references)

Romanian

doza (dose), distribui (admeasure, apportion, assign, deal, dispense, divide, give out, measure out, mete, mete out, pass out, portion, serve out, share out, spread), difuza (broadcast, disseminate, irradiate, propagate, scatter, spread, strew), repartiza (allocate, allot, apportion, assign, deal, dispense, divide, pass out, share out), rãspândi (broadcast, carry, cast, circulate, disperse, disseminate, Dot, emit, fling, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, promulgate, propagate, radiate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw), clasifica (assort, class, classify, digest, distinguish, range, sort, sort into classes, tabulate), clasa (class, classify, dismiss, file, methodize, rate), împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, effuse, exude, fling, propagate, scatter, shoot out, spill, split up, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about, vanish), împãrţi (admeasure, allot, apportion, assign, branch, cast, comminute, deal, divide, dole, go snacks, impart, lay on, measure out, mete, mete out, parcel out, partake of, partition, pass out, portion, retail, section, share, slice, split). (various references)

Russian 

распределять (alloc, allocate, allot, aportion, apportion, categorize, deal, deal out, dispart, dispense, give out, mete, portion out, rank, route, share, spans), разослать (send), раздавать (deal, dispense, dole out, give out, hand out), классифицировать (categorize, classify, itemize, pigeonhole, rate, size). (various references)

Scottish

roinn (a share, divide, division, impart, portion, section, separate, share), riaraich (share), rianaich. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

deliti (dish, dish out, dish up, divide, double up, separate, share), rasturati (dilapidate, push), raspodeliti (place), podeliti (deal out, dispense, divide, divvy, farm out). (various references)

Spanish

distribuir (allocate, dispense, give out, issue, pass out, pay out, share out), repartir (allot, apportion, deal, deal out, dispense, give out, hand around, hand out, hand round, issue, measure out, parcel out, part, pass out, share out). (various references)

Swedish

utdela (deliver, dispense, fetch), fördela (allocate, allot, apportion, dispense, divide, lot, spread). (various references)

Turkish

dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, 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), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), saçmak (besprinkle, bestrew, broadcast, disseminate, eradiate, irradiate, lash out on, radiate, scatter, sow, spill, spit, splutter, sprinkle, strew, throw out), sürmek (apply, banish, bedaub, cast out, coat, continue, daub, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expatriate, expel, hang over, herd, last, lay on, lead, ostracize, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, relegate, roll, rub, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, stuff, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), paylaştırmak (allocate, allot, apportion, mete out, portion out, serve out, sever, share out, split, split up). (various references)

Ukrainian

розподіляти (allocate, apportion, cast, deal, dispense, give away, ladle out, lot, mete, share), класифікувати (assort, categorize, class, classify, group, pigeonhole, rank, relegate, sort), поширювати (expand, extend, generalize, intend, noise, outstretch, promulgate, propagate, push, put about, radiate, retail, set about, shed, sow, spread, vend, widen). (various references)

Welsh

dosbarthu (allocate, apportion, assort, class, classify), rhannu (allocate, apportion, divide, share). (various references)

suku. (various references)

adsignavero, adsignavit, aroditarum, circumfusa, circumfusum, describant, describe, describeretur, describes, describet, describite, descripserunt, descripsi, descripsimus, descripsit, descripsitque, descripta, descripti, descriptumque, dido dididi didtum, digere, digeruntur, digesserat, digessisset, digessit, digestos, dispensabit, dispensator, dispertiam, dispertiatur, dispertitae, dispertitus, distribuatis, distribuent, distribuerent, distribueret, distribuero, distribuerunt, distribui, distribuit, distribuite, distributi, dita, dividam, dividamur, dividant, dividat, dividatur, divide, dividebant, dividebantur, dividebat, dividebatque, dividens, divident, dividentem, dividentes, dividentque, dividentur, dividere, dividerent, divideres, divideret, divides, dividesque, dividet, dividetis, dividetur, dividit, dividite, dividitur, dividunt, dividuntur, divisa, divisae, divisam, divisaque, diviserunt, diviseruntque, divisi, divisique, divisis, divisisset, divisisti, divisit, divisitque, diviso, divisum, divisus, mensa, mensae, mensam, mensamque, mensarum, mensas, mensi, mensis, mensura, mensurae, mensuram, mensuramque, mensuras, mensuris, mensus, metiantur, metiar, metiemini, metiens, metientes, metientur, metieris, metietur, metire, metiretur, metiri, metitus, parti, partibor, partis, partiti, partitique, partito, partitur, partitus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "distribute": distributed, distributee, distributees, distributes. (additional references)

Words ending with "distribute": redistribute. (additional references)

Words containing "distribute": redistributed, redistributes, undistributed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Distribute" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: destribute, dictribute, distibute, distrib, distribu, distributte, distrubute. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: turbidites.

-1 letter: turbidite.

-2 letters: detritus, dirtiest, tributes.

-3 letters: bestrid, birdies, bistred, bitters, bittier, bruised, bruited, burdies, bursted, bustier, butters, butties, dirties, disturb, ditsier, ditties, dustier, rubiest, studier, subedit, tidbits, tidiers, tidiest, tribute, trusted, turbits.

-4 letters: bedsit, bestir, bestud, biders, bidets, birdie, bister, bistre, biters, bitted, bitter, brides, britts, bruise, bruits, bruted, brutes, burdie, burets, buried, buries.

+1 letter: distributed, distributee, distributes, turbidities.

+2 letters: distributees, distributive, redistribute.

+3 letters: misattributed, redistributed, redistributes, subdistricted, turbidimeters, undistributed.

+4 letters: distributaries, distributively, indestructible, indestructibly, redistributing, redistribution, redistributive, trisubstituted, turbidimetries.

+5 letters: destructibility, disreputability, extrudabilities, redistributions.

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