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Disunite vs Distribute - What's the difference?

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Disunite is a related term of distribute.


As verbs the difference between disunite and distribute

is that disunite is to cause disagreement or alienation among or within while distribute is (senseid)to divide into portions and dispense.

disunite

English

Verb

  • To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
  • * 1516 , , Utopia , "Of Their Military Discipline":
  • If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them.
  • * 1863 , , Hard Cash , ch. 44:
  • Secrets disunite a family.
  • To separate, sever, or split.
  • * 1899 , , Jennie Baxter, Journalist , ch. 16:
  • I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle.
  • To disintegrate; to come apart.
  • * 1843 , , A Blot In The 'Scutcheon , Act I:
  • You cannot bind me more to you, my lord.
    Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew
    A converse ne'er to disunite again.

    Anagrams

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    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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