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Type Words
Synonyms spread
Has types fan out, propagate, export, straw, straggle, metastasize, generalize, generalise, redistribute, metastasise, discharge, diffuse, sprawl, deploy, strew, spread, spread out
Derivation distribution
Type Words
Synonyms circulate, pass around, pass on
Type of move, displace
Has types send around, scatter, spread, spread out, utter
Type Words
Synonyms give out, hand out, pass out
Type of give, present, gift
Has types portion out, share, deal, divvy up, apportion
Derivation distributive
Type Words
Synonyms stagger
Type of set up, arrange
Type Words
Synonyms broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread
Type of air, bare, publicise, publicize
Has types run, vulgarize, vulgarise, carry, sow, generalise, popularize, generalize, popularise, podcast
Verb group go around, spread, circulate
Type Words
Synonyms administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out
Type of give
Has types reallot, allot, portion, assign, deal, apply, give
Derivation distribution, distributor, distributer
Type Words
Type of exist, be


Values distribute.
Type Words
Type of be
Type Words
Type of transfer
Has types issue, reticulate, supply
Derivation distributer, distribution, distributor


The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia.
Type Words
Type of spread, scatter, spread out


the function distributes the values evenly.

Examples of distribute

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At least four volunteers help Crippen distribute food baskets to needy families.
From the news-journalonline.com
Whoever wins the right to distribute Jackson's unreleased music will pay dearly.
From the businessweek.com
Add the chilled onions and 1 cup of the Parmesan cheese and pulse to distribute.
From the sacbee.com
Bravo will distribute 70 tickets for each show, with some available at the door.
From the stltoday.com
Foursquare will now distribute the deals to its users on behalf of its partners.
From the techcrunch.com
You may want to distribute a number of common shares to your spouse or children.
From the theepochtimes.com
Every garage or shop that helped distribute the brochures played a crucial part.
From the henleystandard.co.uk
My company has a contract to distribute a product on behalf of the manufacturer.
From the guardian.co.uk
News Corp is taking the iPad very seriously as a new way to distribute the news.
From the techcrunch.com
More examples
  • 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"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks"
  • Spread: distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country"
  • Make available; "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia"
  • Give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams"
  • Circulate: cause be distributed; "This letter is being circulated among the faculty"
  • Circulate: cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
  • (Distribution (bridge)) The following terms are used in Contract bridge, Duplicate bridge, and Auction bridge. Some of them are also used in Whist, Bid whist, and other trick-taking games.
  • (Distribution (concurrency)) In mathematics and computer science, a history monoid is a way of representing the histories of concurrently running computer processes as a collection of strings, each string representing the individual history of a process. ...
  • (Distribution (differential geometry)) In differential geometry, a discipline within mathematics, a distribution is a subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold satisfying certain properties. Distributions are used to build up notions of integrability, and specifically of a foliation of a manifold.