Crossword clues for distributing
distributing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distribute \Dis*trib"ute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distributed; p. pr. & vb. n. Distributing.] [L. distributus, p. p. of distribuere to divide, distribute; dis- + tribuere to assign, give, allot. See Tribute.]
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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
She did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred.
--Judith xvi. 24. To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.
--Shak.To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.
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(Printing)
To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
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(Logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to.
--Whately.Syn: To dispense; deal out; apportion; allot; share; assign; divide.
Distributing \Dis*trib"u*ting\, a. That distributes; dealing out.
Distributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of distribute English)
Usage examples of "distributing".
He appoints as triumvirs for distributing the land, Titus Quintius, Aulus Virginius, and Publius Furius: those who wished to obtain land were ordered to give in their names.
For even if, among fallible mortals, there may frequently be ground for the hesitation of just men to award the punishment of death to their enemies, the most beautiful story, to my present knowledge, of all antiquity, that of Cleobis and Bito, might suggest to them the fitness on some occasions, of distributing without any hesitation the reward of death to their friends.
After distributing some little presents among them, we went to the church, which had been decorated with holly, pine, cassena, mistletoe, and the hanging moss, and had a very Christmas-like look.
In reconnoitring, in distributing proclamations, in collecting arms, in overawing outlying districts, weak columns must be used.
A State agency may require a company which sells natural gas to local consumers and distributing companies, transporting it in pipe lines from other States, to file contracts, agreements, etc.
It is too busy giving comfort to giants and distributing death crystals to the unwary!
State may be applied to the income of a foreign pipeline corporation which is commercially domiciled there and which pipes natural gas into that State for delivery to, and sale by, a local distributing corporation to local consumers.
If this opinion as to the cause of this greater imperviousness is correct, it will be readily seen how water, descending to the drains, by carrying these soluble and finer parts downward and distributing them more equally through the whole, should render the soil more porous.
As soon as I was in the midst of the little flock, the delight became general, Sophie distributing the sweetmeats to her friends, who received them gratefully.
Udall, killing more than sixty people and distributing kaboodles of outlandish debris all over the countryside.
She stopped at Loxa, where she administered aid and consolation to the wounded, distributing money among them for their support, according to their rank.
The means of reproducing and distributing copies of the many ancient maps which are scattered among the various libraries of Europe were then very imperfect, and the science of Comparative Cartography, of which the importance is now well recognised, was in its infancy.
Suppose him screened by a corrupt majority of his creatures, whom he retains in daily pay, or engages in his particular interest, by distributing among them those posts and places which ought never to be bestowed upon any but for the good of the public.
State where cotton gins are held to be public utilities and their rates regulated, the granting of a license to a cooperative association distributing profits ratably to members and nonmembers does not deny other persons operating gins equal protection when there is nothing in the laws to forbid them to distribute their net earnings among their patrons.
The pretty servingwoman pulled back the heavy cloth that had been draped over the foodstuffs in her wagon, and she began distributing bread with the efficiency of long practice, aided again by the father.