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Settled vs Distributed - What's the difference?

settled | distributed |

As verbs the difference between settled and distributed

is that settled is (settle) while distributed is (distribute).

As an adjective settled

is comfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest.

settled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Comfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest.
  • It took me a while to feel settled after I moved to this big city.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (settle)
  • 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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