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Verb distribute has 10 senses
- distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out - administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"
--1 is one way to give
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- spread, distribute - distribute or disperse widely; "The invaders spread their language all over the country"
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Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- distribute - make available; "The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia"
--3 is one way to transfer
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue distribute the movie
- distribute, give out, hand out - give out; "The teacher handed out the exams"
--4 is one way to give, gift, present
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- circulate, pass around, pass on, distribute - cause to be distributed; "This letter is circulating among the faculty"
--5 is one way to move, displace
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Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around - cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
--6 is one way to publicize, publicise, air, bare
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Somebody ----s something
- distribute - spread throughout a given area; "the function distributes the values evenly"
--7 is one way to spread, scatter, spread out
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- distribute - be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses; "Values distribute"
--8 is one way to exist, be
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Something ----s
- distribute - be mathematically distributive
--9 is one way to be
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Something ----s
- stagger, distribute - to arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall"
--10 is one way to arrange, set up
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Somebody ----s something PP
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