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Definition: Distributor |
DistributorNoun1. Someone who markets merchandise. 2. A person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion. 3. Electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "distributor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
Etymology: Distributor \Dis*trib"u*tor\, noun. [Latin expression]. (Websters 1913) |
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Economics | An agent who sells for a supplier at wholesale and usually maintains an inventory of the supplier's products. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A supply undertaking providing electricity via a distribution network. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Devices of two basic types:a)the type using contact points to close and open the coil primary circuit; b)the type using a magnetic pick-up and a transistor control unit. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| E. the -- has two jobs. First, it closes and opens the circuit between the battery and the ignition coil. . . . The distributor's second job is to distribute each high-voltage surge to the correct spark pl ug. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | Device used to ensure controlled flow, and sometimes very short-distance transport of powdery, granular or liquid materials. Source: European Union. (references) |
Occupations | Loads, unloads, and moves materials within or near plant, yard, or work site, performing any combination of following duties: Reads work order or follows oral instructions to ascertain materials or containers to be moved. Opens containers, using steel cutters, crowbar, clawhammer, or other handtools. Loads and unloads materials onto or from pallets, trays, racks, and shelves by hand. Loads materials into vehicles and installs strapping, bracing, or padding to prevent shifting or damage in transit, using handtools. Conveys materials to or from storage or work sites to designated area, using handtruck, electric dolly, wheelbarrow, or other device. Secures lifting attachments to materials and conveys load to destination, using hand-operated crane or hoist, or signals crane or hoisting operators to move load to destination [LABORER, HOISTING (any industry) 921.667-022]. Counts, weighs, and records number of units of materials moved or handled on daily production sheet. Attaches identifying tags or labels to materials or marks information on cases, bales, or other containers. Loads truck for INDUSTRIAL-TRUCK OPERATOR (any industry) 921.683-050. Stacks or assembles materials into bundles and bands bundles together, using banding machine and clincher. Clamps sections of portable conveyor together or places conveyor sections on blocks or boxes to facilitate movement of materials or products. Removes samples of materials, labels with identifying information, and takes samples to laboratory for analysis [LABORATORY-SAMPLE CARRIER (any industry) 922.687-054]. Lifts heavy objects by hand or using power hoist, and cleans work area, machines, and equipment, using broom, rags, and cleaning compounds, to assist machine operators. Makes simple adjustments or repairs, such as realigning belts or replacing rollers, using handtools. Assembles crates to contain products, such as machines or vehicles, using handtools and precut lumber. Shovels loose materials, such as sand, gravel, metals, plastics, or chemicals, into machine hoppers or into vehicles and containers, such as wheelbarrows, scrap truck, or barrels. May occasionally operate industrial truck or electric hoist to assist in loading or moving materials and products. May be designated according to material handled as Filling Hauler, Weaving (textile); according to method of conveying materials as Lugger (agriculture); according to machine or equipment loaded or unloaded as Blunger Loader (pottery & porc.); Vehicle Unloader (any industry); or according to work station as Outside Trucker (any industry); Platform Loader (any industry). May be designated: Bale Piler (textile); Batch Trucker (rubber tire); Bobbin Handler (textile); Car Loader (any industry); Cloth Hauler (textile); Coal Passer (any industry); Compress Trucker (agriculture); Hogshead Dumper (tobacco); Kiln Car Unloader (brick & tile); Laborer, Yard (any industry); Loader (any industry) II; Lumber-Yard Worker (woodworking); Merchandise Carrier (any industry); Mold Mover (toy-sport equip.); Oven Stripper (any industry); Oven Unloader (any industry); Packaging-Machine-Supplies Distributor (tobacco); Slab Picker (saw. & plan.); Powder Trucker (chemical; ordnance); Rack Carrier (paper goods); Racker (any industry); Retort Loader (chemical); Roper (agriculture); Roving Stock Handler (textile); Scrap Wheeler (machine shop); Segregator (agriculture; wholesale tr.); Sugar Trucker (grain-feed mills); Tire Trucker (rubber tire); Trucker, Hand (any industry). (references) |
| Sorts laundered or drycleaned articles, such as linens, garments, blankets, and drapes, according to customer's identification mark or tag: Reads identification symbols on mark or tag attached to clean articles. Sorts articles with similar symbols into groups. Collects items belonging to each customer from group, using customer's list of articles received to verify completeness of order. Inspects items for quality of service. May be designated according to type of article assembled as Flatwork Assembler (laundry & rel.); Wearing-Apparel Assembler (laundry & rel.). (references) | |
Post & Telecom | The structure for terminating wires and connecting them together in any desired order. Source: European Union. (references) |
| In multiplex systems, a mechanical, or electronic device, which distributes line connection in quick succession to the different message channels of a time-division multi-channel system. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Public Administration | Type of middleman to whom a manufacturer has granted an exclusive or preferential right to buy and re-sell a specific range of products and/or services in particular markets or geographical areas. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | An undertaking which is authorized by the system vendor to provide distribution facilities to subscribers. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Modern engine designs are tending to do away with the distributor, preferring instead to have an integrated coil within each spark plug. This avoids the need to switch very high voltages, which is very often a source of trouble, especially in damp conditions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Distributor."
Synonyms: DistributorSynonyms: allocator (n), distributer (n), electrical distributor (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: sprayer (mechanical engineering). |
Crosswords: Distributor |
| English words defined with "distributor": breaker point ♦ distribution cost, distributor cam, distributor cap, distributor housing, distributor point ♦ point ♦ rotor ♦ stockist ♦ trademark. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "distributor": ASPHALT-DISTRIBUTOR TENDER ♦ Butters and Mein distributor ♦ cable-machine operator, cabling-machine operator, CIRCULATION CLERK ♦ DWELL METER ♦ EUnet Ltd. ♦ Fugitive emissions ♦ Hubbard distributor ♦ MOTORCYCLE ASSEMBLER ♦ oil-distributor tender ♦ Peripheral Technology Group ♦ SANDWICH-BOARD CARRIER, spine road, strander operator, STRANDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, strand-machine operator, subscription clerk ♦ TIRE ADJUSTER, TUNE-UP MECHANIC ♦ Unipress Software, Inc. ♦ WHOLESALE COMPETITION, Wholesale Wheeling. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Distributor" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Czech (distributor). |
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Screenplays | If it's trouble you're looking for, you've just come across the West Coast distributor. (The Greatest American Hero; writing credit: Morris Gleitzman) | |
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 | Caption: Office of Phonograph Distributor, Mr. Grusser, Center; Berlin, Germany; Unknown Date; {29.200/28} (jpg). |  | Distributor, Native American man, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right; arms folded, holding bow, arrow, and tomahawk; dressed in bone breast plate. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coast Guard Auxiliary. Guardians of inland waters. Coast Guard Auxiliary members meet once a week for instruction. Here Harry Whitten, a Boston automobile distributor (right) gives instructions to fellow reservists in the workings of the ignition system o. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Unloader and distributor of sugar beets at sugar beet plant. Lewiston, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Truck of G.C. Law, a distributor of The Washington Times, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Subscribe to Chinese magazines in English : Peking Review, weekly ... : general distributor, Guozi Shudian ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | This distributor then sells to other dealers. (references) | |
The use of a stocking distributor is recommended. (references) | ||
So it is difficult to find an agent or a distributor at this moment. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Singapore | The ban was upheld over an appeal submitted by the local distributor. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Gaya, the country's largest independent distributor, reported increased government harassment. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | ABA was the country's CNN distributor and held rebroadcasting rights for a number of Russian channels as well. (references) | |
Economic History | Nicaragua | SHELL NICARAGUA, petroleum distributor. (references) |
Argentina | Working with a distributor has several advantages. (references) | |
Nicaragua | The government rents out the state gasoline distributor. (references) | |
Political Economy | TUNISIA | Foreign companies cannot distribute products locally without a Tunisian distributor. (references) |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | To do business in the UAE outside of one of the free zones, a foreign business, in most cases, must have a UAE national sponsor, agent or distributor. (references) | |
PARAGUAY | This law requires that to break a contractual relation with its Paraguayan distributor, the foreign company must prove just cause in a Paraguayan court. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | We recommend that an agent or distributor handle this process. (references) |
Bolivia | If software is sent to a distributor, duties and taxes must be applied. (references) | |
Vietnam | A customs warehouse keeper can provide transportation services and act as a distributor for the goods deposited. (references) | |
Travel | Turkey | Distributor / retailer markups are not limited by law, only demand and competition. (references) |
Guatemala | U.S. suppliers should be prepared to have a local representative or distributor and to travel to Guatemala personally. (references) | |
Netherlands | If such literature cannot be provided, the U.S. exporter should work with the Dutch importer or distributor to have the products labeled in the Netherlands. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Distributor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.95% of the time. "Distributor" is used about 490 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 96.95% | 475 | 12,481 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.44% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (common) | 0.61% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 490 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "distributor": automatic call distributor ♦ coil distributor ♦ current distributor ♦ distributor arm ♦ distributor brick ♦ distributor cam ♦ distributor cap ♦ distributor housing ♦ distributor point ♦ electrical distributor ♦ fertilizer distributor ♦ film distributor ♦ ignition distributor ♦ leading distributor ♦ local distributor road ♦ rotary distributor ♦ sand distributor ♦ steam distributor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "distributor": distributor-level. | |
Ending with "distributor": collector-distributor, retailer-distributor, transmitter-distributor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Albanian | distributor karburanti, shpërndarës (dispersive, distributive, spreader, Tranter), firmë shpërndarëse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | موزعة أداة في المحرك, موزع (dispenser), وكيل التوزيع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разпределител (dispenser), представител (agent, deputy, factor, mouth, prophet, rep, representation, representative, secondary, spokesman, vakeel), пласьор (bagman, marketing agent, solicitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 配送者 , 经"商 (Dealer, Distributer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | distributor, velkoobchodník (wholesaler), rozdìlovaè. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fordeler (delivery manifold, diffuser, dispenser, distributing frame, distribution block, distribution frame, distributor manifold, manifold, mechanical feeder, spreader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verdeler (coil distributor, current distributor, delivery manifold, dispenser, distribution block, distribution frame, distributor manifold, igniter, ignition distributor, manifold, sprue pin, timer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | distribuilo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jakelija (dispenser, distribution undertaking), jakaja (divider, divisor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | distributeur (dispenser), répartiteur (dispatcher, distribution block, distribution frame, distributor manifold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verteiler (allocator, contributor, dispatcher, dispenser, distribution list, distributors, divider, terminal block), zündverteiler (coil distributor, current distributor, igniter, ignition distributor, timer), vertreter (advocate, agent, deputy, exponent, holder, locum, proxy, rep, replacement, representative, sales representative, salesman, supporter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διανομέας (postman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מפיץ (disseminator), מפזר (spreader), מחלק (divider, divisor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elosztó (dispenser, distributing, distributive, spreader), szétosztó (dispenser), gyújtáselosztó, egyedárusító. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyalur, pembagi (dealer, dispenser, divider, divisor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spinterogeno (coil distributor, current distributor, igniter, ignition distributor, timer), distributore (dealer, dispenser, machine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss), 取次店 (agency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ディストリ"ューター , とりつぎて" (agency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 분배자 (Distributer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ronneyder (dealer, shareholder, versifier), rheynneyder (allotter, dispenser, divider, divisor, shareholder), fer ronney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | fordeler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istributorday repartidor (distribution block, distribution frame, distributor manifold, manifold), pulverizador (blower, pulverizer, vaporizer), atomizador (atomiser, atomizer, sprayer), agente (agency, agent, broker, deputy, factor, g-man, instrument, minion, organ, policeman, procurator, they, you). (various references) distribuitor (bestower, dispenser, feeder). (various references) гудронатор, агент по продаже (dealer). (various references) distributer, delilac (divider, divisor), razvodnik (lance corporal, slide valve, usher), rasturač. (various references) distribuidor (dispenser, distributary, stockist), repartidor (dealer, roundsman, tradesman), delco (coil distributor, current distributor, igniter, ignition distributor, timer). (various references) distributör (distributer), fördelare (diverter, manifold, mechanical feeder). (various references) distribütör (agent, distributer), dağıtımcı (deliveryman, distributer, roundsman), dağıtıcı (deliveryman, dispersive, distributer, peddler, pedlar, runner, spreader). (various references) розподільна магістраль, агент по продажу. (various references) người phân phối. (various references) dosbarthwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | divisorem, pensator. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "distributor": distributors, distributorship, distributorships. (additional references) | |
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"Distributor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: distribu, distrubiton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "distributor" (pronounced di'stri"byuter) |
| 8 | -t r i" b y u t er | contributor. |
| 4 | -y u t er | executor, interlocutor. |
| 3 | -u t er | accelerometer, altimeter, Amphitheater, anemometer, arbiter, auditor, barometer, capacitor, catheter, comparator, competitor, conservator, conspirator, creditor, densitometer, depositor, diameter, editor, elater, estimator, exhibitor, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interferometer, interpreter, janitor, kilometer, magnetometer, marketer, micrometer, monitor, odometer, orator, orbiter, parameter, perimeter, photometer, picketer, polarimeter, predator, progenitor, proprietor, quieter, rioter, Sen, senator, sequitur, solicitor, spectrometer, speedometer, telemarketer, tensiometer, Theater, theatre, thermometer, trumpeter, visitor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-i-i-o-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-3 letters: burritos. | |
-4 letters: bistort, burrito, distort, disturb, outbids, stridor, tidbits, tourist, trustor, turbits, turbots. | |
-5 letters: bistro, britts, bruits, burros, dittos, doubts, droits, idiots, orbits, oribis, otitis, outbid, outsit, robust, stroud, studio, subito, suitor, tidbit, torrid, trouts, tubist, turbid, turbit, turbos, turbot, tutors. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-i-i-o-r-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: distributors. | |
+3 letters: redistribution. | |
+4 letters: distributorship, redistributions. | |
+5 letters: distributorships, redistributional. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 74 72 69 62 75 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... - .-. .. -... ..- - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100010 01110101 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s t r i b u t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0074 0072 0069 0062 0075 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875858684756887868184 |
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