Verb
distribute -
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"
administer ,
mete out ,
deal ,
parcel out ,
lot ,
dispense ,
shell out ,
deal out ,
dish out ,
allot ,
dole out
give proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister"
portion ,
allot ,
assign select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
reallot allot again; "They were realloted additional farm land"
deal do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold" ; "The brothers sell shoes"
apply ,
give ask (for something); "He applied for a leave of absence" ; "She applied for college" ; "apply for a job"
distribute -
make available; "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia"
transfer transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America"
supply ,
issue give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
reticulate divide so as to form a network
distribute -
give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams"
give out ,
hand out ,
pass out
gift ,
present ,
give bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him" ; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"
divvy up ,
portion out ,
apportion ,
share ,
deal communicate; "I'd like to share this idea with you"
distribute -
be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses; "Values distribute"
exist ,
be have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"
distribute give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams"
distribute -
spread throughout a given area; "the function distributes the values evenly"
distribute give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams"
scatter ,
spread out ,
spread distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
distribute -
be mathematically distributive
be spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
distribute -
cause to become widely known; "spread information" ; "circulate a rumor" ; "broadcast the news"
circulate ,
circularize ,
circularise ,
disseminate ,
propagate ,
broadcast ,
spread ,
diffuse ,
disperse ,
pass around
publicise ,
publicize ,
bare ,
air make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare"
podcast distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer
sow introduce into an environment; "sow suspicion or beliefs"
go around ,
circulate ,
spread become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread" ; "the story went around in the office"
popularise ,
popularize ,
vulgarise ,
vulgarize ,
generalise ,
generalize make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
carry ,
run continue or extend; "The civil war carried into the neighboring province" ; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces"
distribute -
distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country"
spread
pull together ,
garner ,
collect ,
gather store grain
fan out ,
diffuse ,
spread out ,
spread move outward; "The soldiers fanned out"
expand ,
spread out become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly"
dissipate ,
disperse ,
scatter ,
spread out live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
string out ,
spread out set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series; "the houses were strung out in a long row"
generalise ,
generalize become systemic and spread throughout the body; "this kind of infection generalizes throughout the immune system"
metastasise ,
metastasize spread throughout the body; "the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved"
discharge release from military service
straw ,
strew cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"
export cause to spread in another part of the world; "The Russians exported Marxism to Africa"
propagate multiply sexually or asexually
deploy place troops or weapons in battle formation
redistribute distribute anew; "redistribute the troops more strategically"
sprawl ,
straggle sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
fan out ,
diffuse ,
spread out ,
spread move outward; "The soldiers fanned out"
distribute -
cause be distributed; "This letter is being circulated among the faculty"
circulate ,
pass around ,
pass on
displace ,
move cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war"
send around forward to others; "he is sending around an appeal for funds"
utter express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh" ; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"
scatter ,
spread out ,
spread distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
distribute -
to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
stagger
arrange ,
set up arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule" ; "set up one's life" ; "I put these memories with those of bygone times"
