Affiliate vs Distributor - What's the difference?
affiliate | distributor |
Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
* I. Taylor
To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
* H. Spencer
To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to'' or ''with .
One who distributes, a thing that distributes.
In an internal combustion engine, the device that distributes current to the spark plugs.
As nouns the difference between affiliate and distributor
is that affiliate is someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things while distributor is one who distributes, a thing that distributes.As a verb affiliate
is to adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.affiliate
English
Noun
(en noun)- The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.
Verb
(affiliat)- Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
- to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
- How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?