| VERB | possession | distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out | administer or bestow, as in small portions |
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| contact | distribute, spread | distribute or disperse widely | |
| social | distribute | make available | |
| possession | distribute, give out, hand out, pass out | give to several people | |
| motion | distribute, circulate, pass around, pass on | cause be distributed | |
| communication | distribute, circulate, circularize, circularise, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around | cause to become widely known | |
| stative | distribute | spread throughout a given area | |
| stative | distribute | be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | |
| stative | distribute | be mathematically distributive | |
| contact | distribute, stagger | to arrange in a systematic order |
| Sounds | dihstrih'byuwt | |
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| Rhymes | absolute ... uproot: 83 rhymes with uwt... | |
| Meaning | Administer or bestow, as in small portions. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody | |
| Synonyms | administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out | |
| Narrower | assign, allot, portion | Give out |
| deal | Distribute cards to the players in a game / game / game | |
| give, apply | Give or convey physically | |
| reallot | allot again | |
| Broader | give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody |
| Spanish | adjudicar, asignar, conceder, destinar, dispensar, distribuir, repartir | |
| Catalan | adjudicar, assignar, concedir, destinar, dispensar, distribuir, repartir | |
| Nouns | distributer | electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence |
| distribution | the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | |
| distributor | a person with authority to allot / allot / allot or deal out or apportion | |
| Meaning | Distribute or disperse widely. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Synonym | spread | |
| Narrower | deploy | To distribute systematically or strategically |
| diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out | Move outward | |
| discharge | pour forth or release | |
| export | Cause to spread in another part of the world | |
| generalize, generalise | Become systemic and spread throughout the body | |
| metastasize, metastasise | Spread throughout the body | |
| propagate | transmit or cause to broaden or spread | |
| redistribute | Distribute anew | |
| sprawl, straggle | Go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | |
| strew, straw | spread by scattering ("straw"is archaic) | |
| Opposite | gather, garner, collect, pull together | Assemble or get together |
| Spanish | desplegar, dispensar, distribuir, extender | |
| Catalan | desplegar, dispensar, distribuir, escampar, estendre's, estendre | |
| Nouns | distribution | the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning |
| Meaning | make available. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Model | Sam and Sue distribute the movie | |
| Example | "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia" | |
| Narrower | issue, supply | circulate or distribute or equip with |
| reticulate | Distribute by a network, as of water or electricity | |
| Broader | transfer | Cause to change ownership |
| Spanish | dispensar, distribuir, repartir | |
| Catalan | dispensar, distribuir, repartir | |
| Nouns | distribution | the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer |
| distributor, distributer | someone who markets merchandise | |
| Meaning | Give to several people. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something to somebody | |
| Synonyms | give out, hand out, pass out | |
| Narrower | share, divvy up, portion out, apportion, deal | Give out as one's portion or share |
| Broader | give, gift, present | Give as a present |
| Spanish | dispensar, distribuir, entregar, pasar, repartir | |
| Catalan | dispensar, distribuir, repartir | |
| Adjectives | distributive | serving to distribute or allot / allot or disperse |
| Meaning | Cause be distributed. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something to somebody | |
| Synonyms | circulate, pass around, pass on | |
| Narrower | send around | Forward to others |
| spread, scatter, spread out | strew or distribute over an area | |
| utter | put into circulation | |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
| Spanish | distribuir, repartir | |
| Catalan | distribuir, repartir | |
| Meaning | Cause to become widely known. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | circulate, circularize, circularise, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around | |
| Cause to | go around, spread, circulate | Become widely known and passed on |
| Narrower | carry, run | Include as the content |
| podcast | Distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer | |
| popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise | cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public | |
| sow | introduce into an environment | |
| Broader | publicize, publicise, air, bare | make public |
| Similar to | go around, spread, circulate | Become widely known and passed on |
| Spanish | difundir, diseminar, dispensar, dispersar, distribuir, divulgar, esparcir, propagar, repartir | |
| Catalan | difondre, dispensar, dispersar, disseminar, distribuir, propagar, repartir | |
| Meaning | Spread throughout a given area. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Example | "the function distributes the values evenly" | |
| Broader | spread, scatter, spread out | strew or distribute over an area |
| Similar to | distribute | Be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses |
| Meaning | Be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "Values distribute" | |
| Broader | exist, be | Have an existence, be extant |
| Similar to | distribute | Spread throughout a given area |
| Spanish | dispensar, distribuir | |
| Catalan | dispensar, distribuir | |
| Meaning | Be mathematically distributive. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Broader | be | Have the quality of being |
| Meaning | To arrange in a systematic order. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Synonym | stagger | |
| Broader | arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order |
| Spanish | amontonar, apilar, distribuir, hacinar | |
| Catalan | agarberar, amuntegar-se, amuntegar, apilar, apilonar | |
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