| 单词 | distribute |
| 释义 | distribute (once / 93 pages) 1v 2v To distribute is to disperse widely, hand out, or spread around. While you're still snoozing, the paper boy is busy distributing the newspaper all over the neighborhood. This verb was first recorded in the early 15th century and has its roots in the Latin distributus, meaning “to divide.” Think of dividing up the last cookies in the cookie jar and passing them out to all your friends. Distribute can also mean to space out or arrange in a particular order — you'd want to distribute the chairs in even lines across the floor when setting up for a concert, for example. WORD FAMILYdistribute: distributary, distributed, distributer, distributes, distributing, distribution, distributive, distributor, redistribute+/distributary: distributaries/distributed: undistributed/distributer: distributers/distribution: distributional, distributions/distributive: distributively/distributor: distributors/redistribute: redistributed, redistributes, redistributing, redistribution/redistribution: redistributions USAGE EXAMPLESWhen he stepped down in 2011, his power was distributed among more of the company’s executives, but decisions remained highly centralized. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Another red flag: Ray said if a pharmacist orders more narcotics than are being distributed through order prescriptions it may draw the inspector’s interest. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Carter is still talking with DHS and other nonprofits that support foster families on distributing the suitcases. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v give to several people Syn|Hypo|Hyper give out, hand out, pass out apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out, share give out as one's portion or share gift, give, present give as a present; make a gift of 2v cause be distributed Syn|Hypo|Hyper circulate, pass around, pass on send around forward to others utterput into circulation scatter, spread, spread outstrew or distribute over an area circularise, circularizedistribute circulars to manure, muckspread manure, as for fertilization birdlime, limespread birdlime on branches to catch birds circumfusespread something around something displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 3v administer or bestow, as in small portions Syn|Hypo|Hyper administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out allot, assign, portion give out reallotallot again dealdistribute cards to the players in a game apply, givegive or convey physically allow, appropriate, earmark, reserve, set asidegive or assign a resource to a particular person or cause allocate, apportiondistribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose misdealdeal cards wrongly treadapply (the tread) to a tire administerperform (a church sacrament) ritually give transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody 4v distribute or disperse widely Syn|Ant|Hypo spread collect, garner, gather, pull together assemble or get together generalise, generalize become systemic and spread throughout the body metastasise, metastasizespread throughout the body dischargepour forth or release straw, strewspread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) exportcause to spread in another part of the world propagatetransmit or cause to broaden or spread deployto distribute systematically or strategically redistributedistribute anew sprawl, stragglego, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way diffuse, fan out, spread, spread outmove outward eject, force out, squeeze out, squirtcause to come out in a squirt disperse, dot, dust, scatter, sprinkledistribute loosely playdischarge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream volleydischarge in, or as if in, a volley bestrewcover by strewing littermake a place messy by strewing garbage around redeploydeploy anew percolatespread gradually creepgrow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) bleed, runbe diffused mantlespread over a surface, like a mantle 5v spread throughout a given area the function distributes the values evenly Hyper scatter, spread, spread out strew or distribute over an area 6v cause to become widely known Syn|Hypo|Hyper broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread circulate, go around, spread become widely known and passed on podcast distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer sowintroduce into an environment generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarizecater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use carry, runinclude as the content; broadcast or publicize air, bare, publicise, publicize make public 7v make available The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia Hypo|Hyper issue, supply circulate or distribute or equip with reticulatedistribute by a network, as of water or electricity free, release, unblock, unfreezemake (assets) available reissueissue (a new version of) free, releasemake (information) available for publication transfer cause to change ownership 8v to arrange in a systematic order 2Syn|Hyper stagger arrange, set up put into a proper or systematic order 1v be mathematically distributive Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 2v be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses Values distribute Hyper be, exist have an existence, be extant |
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