| disseminator | | |
| n. (person) | 1. disseminator, propagator | someone who spreads the news. |
| ~ communicator | a person who communicates with others. |
| distributor | | |
| n. (person) | 1. distributer, distributor | someone who markets merchandise. |
| ~ jobber, middleman, wholesaler | someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers. |
| ~ retail merchant, retailer | a merchant who sells goods at retail. |
| ~ ship chandler | a dealer in equipment and supplies for ships. |
| ~ provider, supplier | someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity. |
| ~ wool stapler | a dealer in wool. |
| n. (person) | 2. allocator, distributor | a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion. |
| ~ authority | (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others.; "the authorities have issued a curfew" |
| n. (group) | 3. distributor | a company that markets merchandise.; "his company is a large distributor of software products" |
| ~ company | an institution created to conduct business.; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" |
| ~ direct mailer | a distributor who uses direct mail to sell merchandise. |
| ~ retail chain | a chain of retail stores. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. distributer, distributor, electrical distributor | electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence. |
| ~ capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser, capacitance | an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge. |
| ~ distributor cam | the cam inside the distributor that rotates to contact spark plug terminals in the correct order. |
| ~ distributor cap | the cap of the distributor that holds in place the wires from the distributor to the spark plugs. |
| ~ breaker point, distributor point, point | a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs. |
| ~ electrical device | a device that produces or is powered by electricity. |
| ~ ignition system, ignition | the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine. |
| ~ rotor | the revolving bar of a distributor. |
| distribute | | |
| 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" |
| give out | | |
| v. (weather) | 1. emit, give off, give out | give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc..; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits" |
| ~ effuse | give out or emit (also metaphorically).; "The room effuses happiness" |
| ~ shine, reflect | be bright by reflecting or casting light.; "Drive carefully--the wet road reflects" |
| ~ spark, sparkle | emit or produce sparks.; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark" |
| ~ radiate | send out rays or waves.; "The sun radiates heat" |
| ~ scintillate | give off.; "the substance scintillated sparks and flashes" |
| ~ fume, smoke | emit a cloud of fine particles.; "The chimney was fuming" |
| ~ reek | give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc..; "Marshes reeking in the sun" |
| ~ shoot | emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully.; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth" |
| ~ ray | emit as rays.; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky" |
| ~ steam | emit steam.; "The rain forest was literally steaming" |
| v. (change) | 2. fail, give out, run out | prove insufficient.; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought" |
| v. (change) | 3. break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad | stop operating or functioning.; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ break | render inoperable or ineffective.; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!" |
| ~ buy the farm, cash in one's chips, croak, decease, die, drop dead, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, snuff it, expire, pop off, conk, exit, choke, go, pass | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" |
| ~ go down, crash | stop operating.; "My computer crashed last night"; "The system goes down at least once a week" |
| ~ blow out, burn out, blow | melt, break, or become otherwise unusable.; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew" |
| ~ misfire | fail to fire or detonate.; "The guns misfired" |
| ~ malfunction, misfunction | fail to function or function improperly.; "the coffee maker malfunctioned" |
| divvy up | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out, share | give out as one's portion or share. |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| ~ hand out, give out, pass out, distribute | give to several people.; "The teacher handed out the exams" |
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