Adhere vs Distribute - What's the difference?
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To stick fast or , as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.
To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
(senseid)To divide into portions and dispense.
(senseid)To supply to retail outlets.
(senseid)To deliver or pass out.
(senseid)To scatter or spread.
(senseid)To apportion (more or less evenly).
(senseid)To classify or separate into categories.
(senseid)(mathematics) To be distributive.
(printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
(printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
(logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
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As verbs the difference between adhere and distribute
is that adhere is to stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura while distribute is (to divide into portions and dispense) To divide into portions and dispense.adhere
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* (archaic)Verb
(adher)Antonyms
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Verb
(distribut)- He distributed the bread amongst his followers.
- The agency distributes newspapers to local shops.
- A network of children distributes flyers to every house.
- I raked the soil then distributed grass seed.
- The robot's six legs distributed its weight over a wide area.
- The database distributed verbs into transitive and intransitive segments.
- 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.