What is "distributed"

Usage examples of "distributed".

Iraqi intelligence sources reported that Iranian forces in Khuzestan, which had formerly included two divisions distributed among Ahvaz, Dezful, and Abadan, now consisted of only a number of ill-equipped battalion-sized formations.

It should not, as long as meat derived from cancerous animals is permitted by Government authority, to pass inspection, and to be distributed throughout the world.

As usual upon arrival, we distributed first aspirin and then Nivaquin, the antimalarial pill.

Their object, as a sharp, wiry artizan bellowed into my ear, was to force the Government to consent to the election of a Commune, in order that the Chassepots may be more fairly distributed between the bourgeois and the ouvriers, and that Paris shall no longer render itself ridiculous by waiting within its walls until its provisions are exhausted and it is forced to capitulate.

The speed limitation could be overcome if computers could be designed more like brains - that is, capable of parallel and distributed rather than sequential and linear operations.

The satraps and generals were distributed according to their several ranks, and the whole army, besides the numerous train of Oriental luxury, consisted of more than one hundred thousand effective men, inured to fatigue, and selected from the bravest nations of Asia.

As soon as they possessed a more equal field, Julian, who, with his light infantry, had led the attack, darted through the ranks a skilful and experienced eye: his bravest soldiers, according to the precepts of Homer, were distributed in the front and rear: and all the trumpets of the Imperial army sounded to battle.

But she was not aware that the bushranger, whose quick eye caughtsight of the manoeuvre, rapidly but carefully picked them up, as he followed, with not less diligence than that with which she distributed them.

Imperial magazines, from whence they were occasionally distributed for the use of the court, of the army, and of two capitals, Rome and Constantinople.

The Olympians, virtually stripped to the skin of their fish-battered garments, had distributed themselves clubbily about the lounge and were thirstily watching Mr Betts as he diligently mixed cocktails.

In some cases the clusters are quite compact, and in others the rooms are distributed in narrow rows.

We distributed several small cogs, a few clock wheels, several camera fitments, some small, tangled bunches of copper wire, and other attractive oddments.

The canons had distributed various joints of meat, chickens, capons, conies, eggs, milk, honey, flour, almonds, and other raw materials among the housewives, who had added what they could, and a great fragrance of roasting, baking and boiling hung over the town during the afternoon.

SHIP CONTROL OFFICER Russian equivalent to a helmsman, except the watchstander is an officer directing a highly automated distributed control system that controls the motion of the ship.

The downs, the extent of which was large, were composed of hillocks and even of hills, very irregularly distributed.