distribute
verboattestato nei dialoghi
- Regno Unito//dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt//
- Canada//dɪˈstɹɪbjut//
- Australia//dɪˈstɹɪbjʉːt//
- Nuova Zelanda//dəˈstɹəbjʉːt//
To divide into portions and dispense.
verbo
- 1
To divide into portions and dispense.
He distributed the bread amongst his followers.
- 2
To supply to retail outlets.
The agency distributes newspapers to local shops.
- 3
To deliver or pass out.
A network of children distributes flyers to every house.
Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a cheaper way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs.
- 4
To scatter or spread.
I raked the soil then distributed grass seed.
The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
- 5
To apportion (more or less evenly).
The robot's six legs distributed its weight over a wide area.
With an election not much more than a year away, distributing HS2's money into roads is pork barrel politics. Or at least it would be if the money existed.
- 6
To classify or separate into categories.
The database distributed verbs into transitive and intransitive segments.
- 7
To be distributive.
Multiplication distributes over addition.
- 8
To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- 9
To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- 10
To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to.
- 11
To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
distributed business; distributed employee
Etimologia
PIE word *tréyes From Latin distributus, past participle of distribuere (“to divide, distribute”), from dis- (“apart”) + tribuere (“to give, impart”); see tribute.
Forme
- passato
- distributed
- participio passato
- distributed
- participio presente
- distributing
- 3ª persona singolare
- distributes
distribute · To divide into portions and dispense.
distributed · Spread across a relatively wide area.distribution · An act of distributing or state of being distributed.distributor · One who or that which distributes.