Impart vs Distribute - What's the difference?
impart | distribute |
To give a (l) or (l).
To (l) the (l) of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, chapter=5, title= To hold a (l) or (l).
To obtain a share of; to partake of.
(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.
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As verbs the difference between impart and distribute
is that impart is to give a (l) or (l) while distribute is (senseid)to divide into portions and dispense.impart
English
Verb
(en verb)- Well may he then to you his cares impart .
- Gentle lady, / When I did first impart my love to you.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- (Munday)
Synonyms
* (to give a part or share) (l), (l), (l) * (to communicate knowledge of) (l), (l)Anagrams
* (l) * (l)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.