Word Meanings - DISTRIBUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A resolving a whole into its parts. (more info) 1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena

Additional info about word: DISTRIBUTION

A resolving a whole into its parts. (more info) 1. The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children. The phenomena of geological distribution are exactly analogous to those of geography. A. R. Wallace. 2. Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification. 3. That which is distributed. "Our charitable distributions." Atterbury.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISTRIBUTION)

• Dispensation
• Economy
• dealing
• revelation
• distribution
• arrangement
• visitation
• exemption
• immunity
• privilege
• abandonment
• dismissal
• disuse
• indulgence
• Administration
• dispensation
• management
• rule
• husbanding
• Partition
• Barrier
• division
• enclosure
• compartment
• interspace
• separation
• allotment
• screen
• Proportion
• Adaptation
• relation
• rate
• adjustment
• symmetry
• interrelationship
• uniformity
• correlation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DISTRIBUTION)

• Open
• expose
• surrender
• betray
• aggravate
• exaggerate
• prosecute

Related words: (words related to DISTRIBUTION)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• SCREENINGS
  The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• VISITATION
  The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• ENCLOSURE
  Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• COMPARTMENT
  One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• PROPORTION
  1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• INDULGENCE
  Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• ASYMMETRY
  Incommensurability. Barrow. (more info) 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• MISADJUSTMENT
  Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.