Distribution vs Dispense - What's the difference?
distribution | dispense |
An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
(business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
Anything distributed; portion; share.
* Atterbury
The result of distributing; arrangement.
(mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
(computing) A set of bundled software components; distro.
(economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
(finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
The resolution of a whole into its parts.
The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
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* 1553', , ''The Arte of Rhetorique'' (1962), book iii,
* 1728', (Ephraim Chambers), '''' I,
To issue, distribute, or put out.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
* Dryden
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with .
(obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
* , II.34:
* Macaulay
* Johnson
(obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
* Spenser
* Gower
(obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
(obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
* , II.xii:
As a noun distribution
is distribution.As a verb dispense is
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- our charitable distributions
- The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
folio 99, page 209''s.v.'' “' Di?tribucion ”:
- It is al?o called a di?tribucion , when we diuide the whole, into ?euerall partes, and ?aie we haue foure poynctes, whereof we purpo?e to ?peake, comp?ehendyng our whole talke within compa??e of the?ame.
page 230/2''s.v.'' “' Di?tribution ²”:
- Di?tribution, in Rhetoric, a Kind of De?cription ; or a Figure, whereby an orderly Divi?ion, and Enumeration is made of the principal Qualities of a Subject.
Derived terms
(Derived terms) * distributional * distributionism * frequency distribution * income distribution * multidistribution * property distribution * stable distribution * probability distribution * tempered distributionReferences
* “Distribution]” on page 534 of § 1 (D, ed. ) of volume III (D–E, 1897) of [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles](1st ed.)
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Verb
- He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
- The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
- to dispense justice
- While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
- I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.
- After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline.
- It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
- He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
- One loving hour / For many years of sorrow can dispense .
- His sin was dispensed / With gold, whereof it was compensed.
Derived terms
* dispensary * dispenserNoun
(en noun)- what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].