Disbursed vs Distributed - What's the difference?
disbursed | distributed |
(disburse)
(finance) To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
(distribute)
(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 disbursed and distributed
is that disbursed is (disburse) while distributed is (distribute).disbursed
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(head)disburse
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(disburs)Usage notes
* Do not confuse with the scattering word disperse, despite similarity.Synonyms
(to pay out) shell out (informal), cough up (informal), fork out (informal), fork over (informal)Derived terms
* disbursementdistributed
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(head)distribute
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(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.