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Distributed vs Shared - What's the difference?

distributed | shared |

As verbs the difference between distributed and shared

is that distributed is (distribute) while shared is (share).

As an adjective shared is

used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.

distributed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distribute)

    • 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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    Adjective

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  • Used by multiple entities or for multiple purposes or in multiple ways.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […];  […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}

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  • (share)

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