Verb

(head)

(distribute)

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.

Verb

(head)

(propagate)

Verb

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.

To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.

To spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate

* Daniel Defoe

The infection was propagated insensibly.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=December 19 , author=Kerry Brown , title=Kim Jong-il obituary , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=The DPRK propagated an extraordinary tale of his birth occurring on Mount Baekdu, one of Korea's most revered sites, being accompanied by shooting stars in the sky. It is more likely that he was born in a small village in the USSR, while his father was serving as a Soviet-backed general during the second world war.}}

(obsolete) To multiply; to increase.

* Shakespeare

Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, / Which thou wilt propagate .

To generate; to produce.

* De Quincey

Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life.

To have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.

(computing) To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

It takes 24 hours for password changes to propagate throughout the system.

(computing) To cause to take effect on all relevant devices in a network.

The server propagates the password file at midnight each day.