distributed

«distributed» in Mova's school dictionary: given out or shared among people or places — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (distribute, distributes, distributed, distributing); adjective (distributed — spread out)

meaning for a pupil

1) Distributed means given out or shared among people or places. tree →

2) Distributed also means spread out over an area. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: things shared out among people or groups, often equally (each gets total ÷ number); data spread across groups; science: seeds distributed by wind and animals; everyday life: food distributed to people in need, papers distributed to the class

examples

• The teacher distributed 30 pencils to 10 students. tree →
• 48 apples were distributed equally into 6 baskets. tree →
• She distributed the cards to her friends. tree →
• How many did each get if 40 were distributed among 8? tree →
• Seeds are distributed by the wind. tree →
• Food was distributed after the flood. tree →
• The tests were distributed at 9 o'clock. tree →
• How unequally things are distributed in this world! tree →

note

Usually division: each gets total ÷ number of people. Trap: if not «equally», you cannot divide; look for the amounts given to each.

In the corpora

• These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «distributed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.