- to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- to disperse through a space or over an area; spread; scatter.
- to promote, sell, and ship or deliver (an item or line of merchandise) to individual customers, especially in a specified region or area.
- to pass out or deliver (mail, newspapers, etc.) to intended recipients.
- to divide into distinct phases: The process was distributed into three stages.
- to divide into classes: These plants are distributed into 22 classes.
- to employ (a term) in a proposition so as to refer to all individuals denoted by the term.
- to dissolve uniformly in a solvent consisting of layers of immiscible or partially miscible substances.
- Printing.
- to roll out (ink) on the table to attain the proper consistency.
- to return (type) to the proper place after printing.
- to give out in shares; dispense
- to hand out or deliver
- to spread throughout a space or area
- to divide into classes or categories; classify
- to return (used type) to the correct positions in the type case
- to incorporate in a distributed term of a categorial proposition
- to expand an expression containing two operators in such a way that the precedence of the operators is changed; for example, distributing multiplication over addition in a (b + c) yields ab + ac
- to dispense (justice)
