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{
"term": "distribute",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "distribute",
"heSheIt": "distributes"
},
"pastSimple": "distributed",
"pastParticiple": "distributed",
"ingForm": "distributing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to give things to a large number of people; to share something between a number of people or groups",
"sensetop": "distribute somethingdistribute something to somebody/somethingdistribute something among somebody/somethingdistribute something between somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The leaflets have been **widely distributed**.",
"contextForm": "distribute something"
},
{
"text": "The newspaper is distributed free."
},
{
"text": "to distribute fliers/pamphlets/questionnaires"
},
{
"text": "Viruses are often distributed via email."
},
{
"text": "The organization distributed food to the earthquake victims.",
"contextForm": "distribute something to somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The money was distributed among schools in the area.",
"contextForm": "distribute something among somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The proceeds will be distributed between local charities.",
"contextForm": "distribute something between somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "Copies of the book were distributed free to each school in the district."
},
{
"text": "We distributed the money equally among the team members."
},
{
"text": "distributing aid to people in need"
},
{
"text": "The participants were randomly distributed into three groups."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["equally", "fairly", "unequally"],
"preposition": ["among", "between", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to send goods to shops and businesses so that they can be sold",
"sensetop": "distribute something (+ adv./prep.)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Who distributes our products in the UK?"
},
{
"text": "Their trademark jeans enjoyed immediate success and were soon distributed worldwide."
},
{
"text": "nationally distributed brands of fruit juice"
},
{
"text": "‘Plastika’ distributes our products in the UK."
},
{
"text": "The cheese is imported and distributed exclusively by Norland Inc."
},
{
"text": "Hood distributes dairy products throughout the United States."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["internationally", "nationally", "exclusively"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to spread something, or different parts of something, over an area",
"sensetop": "be distributed + adv./prep.",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Make sure your weight is **evenly distributed**.",
"contextForm": "be distributed + adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "Cases of the disease are **widely distributed** through Europe."
},
{
"text": "Generous workspaces must be well distributed throughout the library."
},
{
"text": "The plant is globally distributed."
},
{
"text": "The trend is broadly distributed and not just a big-city phenomenon."
},
{
"text": "There are over 35 000 species of orchid distributed throughout the world."
},
{
"text": "Wealth is not evenly distributed between age groups."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["evenly", "uniformly", "unevenly"],
"preposition": ["across", "among", "between"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːt//ˈdɪstrɪbjuːt/",
"audio": "di/distribute/distribute__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːts//ˈdɪstrɪbjuːts/",
"audio": "di/distribute/distributes__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪd//ˈdɪstrɪbjuːtɪd/",
"audio": "di/distribute/distributed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪŋ//ˈdɪstrɪbjuːtɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/distribute/distributing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːt/",
"audio": "di/distribute/distribute__us_1_rr.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːts/",
"audio": "di/distribute/distributes__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪd/",
"audio": "di/distribute/distributed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈstrɪbjuːtɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/distribute/distributing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin distribut- ‘divided up’, from the verb distribuere, from dis- ‘apart’ + tribuere ‘assign’."
}