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Distribute vs Adapt - What's the difference?

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Distribute is a related term of adapt.


As verbs the difference between distribute and adapt

is that distribute is (senseid)to divide into portions and dispense while adapt is to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.

As an adjective adapt is

adapted; fit; suited; suitable.

distribute

English

Verb

(distribut)
  • (senseid)To divide into portions and dispense.
    • He distributed the bread amongst his followers.
  • (senseid)To supply to retail outlets.
    • The agency distributes newspapers to local shops.
  • (senseid)To deliver or pass out.
    • A network of children distributes flyers to every house.
  • (senseid)To scatter or spread.
    • I raked the soil then distributed grass seed.
  • (senseid)To apportion (more or less evenly).
    • The robot's six legs distributed its weight over a wide area.
  • (senseid)To classify or separate into categories.
    • The database distributed verbs into transitive and intransitive segments.
  • (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
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * distributable * distribution * distributionism * distributism * distributivism * distributivity * distributor

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    adapt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
  • To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
  • To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
  • To change oneself so as to be adapted.
    • They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

    Derived terms

    * adaptable * adaptation * adaptative * adapter * adaption * adaptitude * adaptly * adaptness * adaptor

    Related terms

    * adaptational * adaptatively * adaptativeness * adaptedness * adaptability * adaptableness * adaptably * adaptional * adaptive * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptorial

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
    • (Jonathan Swift)

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