distribute

Speech parts

1. distribute - Verb

2. distribute - Adverb

Meaning

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.

To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.

To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.

To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.

To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

To make distribution.

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If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it. Basil of Caesarea

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it. Sitting Bull

Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it. Gregory Benford

You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others. John Calvin

"And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, -Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay? John Ruskin

Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex. Laura Riding

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