Dissever vs Distribute - What's the difference?
dissever | distribute | Related terms |
To separate; to split apart.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy , I.16:
To divide into separate parts.
(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.
* Whately
Dissever is a related term of distribute.
As verbs the difference between dissever and distribute
is that dissever is to separate; to split apart while distribute is (senseid)to divide into portions and dispense.dissever
English
Verb
(en verb)- The storm so dissevered the company that most of them never met again.
- Philosophers, Socrates continues, try to dissever the soul from communion with the body, whereas other people think that life is not worth living for a man who has ‘no sense of pleasure and no part in bodily pleasure’.
- If the bridge is destroyed, the shores are dissevered.
Anagrams
*distribute
English
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.