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| v. (possession) | 1. administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out | 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" |
| ~ give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody.; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" |
| ~ allot, portion, assign | give out.; "We were assigned new uniforms" |
| ~ reallot | allot again.; "They were realloted additional farm land" |
| ~ deal | distribute cards to the players in a game.; "Who's dealing?" |
| ~ apply, give | give or convey physically.; "She gave him First Aid"; "I gave him a punch in the nose" |
| v. (contact) | 2. distribute, spread | distribute or disperse widely.; "The invaders spread their language all over the country" |
| ~ 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 | pour forth or release.; "discharge liquids" |
| ~ strew, straw | spread by scattering (.; "straw"; "strew toys all over the carpet" |
| ~ export | cause to spread in another part of the world.; "The Russians exported Marxism to Africa" |
| ~ propagate | transmit or cause to broaden or spread.; "This great civilization was propagated throughout the land" |
| ~ deploy | to distribute systematically or strategically.; "The U.S. deploys its weapons in the Middle East" |
| ~ redistribute | distribute anew.; "redistribute the troops more strategically" |
| ~ sprawl, straggle | go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way.; "Branches straggling out quite far" |
| ~ diffuse, fan out, spread out, spread | move outward.; "The soldiers fanned out" |
| v. (social) | 3. distribute | make available.; "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia" |
| ~ transfer | cause to change ownership.; "I transferred my stock holdings to my children" |
| ~ issue, supply | circulate or distribute or equip with.; "issue a new uniform to the children"; "supply blankets for the beds" |
| ~ reticulate | distribute by a network, as of water or electricity. |
| v. (possession) | 4. distribute, give out, hand out, pass out | give to several people.; "The teacher handed out the exams" |
| ~ gift, present, give | give as a present; make a gift of.; "What will you give her for her birthday?" |
| ~ divvy up, portion out, apportion, share, deal | give out as one's portion or share. |
| v. (motion) | 5. circulate, distribute, pass around, pass on | cause be distributed.; "This letter is being circulated among the faculty" |
| ~ move, displace | cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense.; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" |
| ~ send around | forward to others.; "he is sending around an appeal for funds" |
| ~ utter | put into circulation.; "utter counterfeit currency" |
| ~ spread out, scatter, spread | strew or distribute over an area.; "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table" |
| v. (communication) | 6. broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread | cause to become widely known.; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" |
| ~ publicize, bare, publicise, 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" |
| ~ circulate, go around, spread | become widely known and passed on.; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" |
| ~ circulate, go around, spread | become widely known and passed on.; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office" |
| ~ popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize, generalise, generalize | cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use.; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors" |
| ~ carry, run | include as the content; broadcast or publicize.; "We ran the ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review"; "All major networks carried the press conference" |
| v. (stative) | 7. distribute | spread throughout a given area.; "the function distributes the values evenly" |
| ~ spread out, scatter, spread | strew or distribute over an area.; "He spread fertilizer over the lawn"; "scatter cards across the table" |
| ~ distribute | be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses.; "Values distribute" |
| v. (stative) | 8. distribute | be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses.; "Values distribute" |
| ~ exist, be | have an existence, be extant.; "Is there a God?" |
| ~ distribute | spread throughout a given area.; "the function distributes the values evenly" |
| v. (stative) | 9. distribute | be mathematically distributive. |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (contact) | 10. distribute, stagger | to arrange in a systematic order.; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall" |
| ~ arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order.; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" |
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