DISTRIBUTE

verb (-uted; -uting) see: tribute Date: 15th century transitive verb to divide among several or many ; apportion , 2. to spread out so as to cover something ; scatter , to give out or deliver especially to members of a group , to place or position so as to be properly apportioned over or throughout an area , to use (a term) so as to convey information about every member of the class named , 3. to divide or separate especially into kinds, to return the units of (as typeset matter) to storage, to use in or as an operation so as to be mathematically distributive, intransitive verb to be mathematically distributive , ~e noun Synonyms: see: ~