| verb | administer or bestow, as in small portions “administer critical remarks to everyone present” |
| verb | distribute or disperse widely “The invaders spread their language all over the country” |
| verb | make available “The publisher wants to distribute the book in Asia” |
| verb | give to several people “The teacher handed out the exams” |
| verb | cause be distributed “This letter is being circulated among the faculty” |
| verb | cause to become widely known “spread information” |
| verb | spread throughout a given area “the function distributes the values evenly” |
| verb | be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses “Values distribute” |
| verb | be mathematically distributive |
| verb | to arrange in a systematic order “stagger the chairs in the lecture hall” |
| adjective | spread out or scattered about or divided up |
| distribution | noun | the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning |
| distributor | noun | a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion |
| distributer | noun | electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence |
| deal | noun | the act of apportioning or distributing something |
| dispensation | noun | a share that has been dispensed or distributed |
| dispenser | noun | a person who dispenses |
| allotment | noun | the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan |
| spread | noun | act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time |
| spreader | noun | a hand tool for spreading something |
| spreading | noun | act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time |
| distributive | adjective | serving to distribute or allot or disperse |
| circular | noun | an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution |
| circulation | noun | number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold |
| disseminative | adjective | spreading by diffusion |
| dissemination | noun | the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate |
| disseminator | noun | someone who spreads the news |
| propagation | noun | the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions |
| propagator | noun | someone who spreads the news |
| broadcast | noun | a radio or television show |
| diffusive | adjective | spreading by diffusion |
| diffusion | noun | the act of dispersing or diffusing something |
| dispersive | adjective | spreading by diffusion |
| dispersion | noun | the act of dispersing or diffusing something |
| dispersal | noun | the act of dispersing or diffusing something |