Distribute vs Intersperse - What's the difference?
distribute | intersperse |
(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
To mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:
* 1991 , Frank Biocca, Television and Political Advertising: Signs, codes, and images , page 76:
# To scatter or insert (something) into or among (other things).
#* 1985 , Jane Y. Murdock, Barbara V. Hartmann, Communication and language intervention program (CLIP) for individuals with moderate to severe handicaps , page 46:
# To place or insert — to diversify by placing or inserting — other things among (something).
As verbs the difference between distribute and intersperse
is that distribute is (senseid)to divide into portions and dispense while intersperse is to mix two things irregularly, placing things of one kind among things of other:.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.
Derived terms
* distributable * distribution * distributionism * distributism * distributivism * distributivity * distributorExternal links
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*intersperse
English
Verb
(interspers)- For example, a commercial sequence might intersperse pictures of a senator working in his office with shots of ordinary Americans happily working in various walks of life.
- Mother Nature interspersed a few dandelions among the petunias, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
- Review tasks are particularly useful to intersperse when students are experiencing considerable failure.
- Mother Nature interspersed the petunias with a few dandelions, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.