undistributed
part of speech
adjective (undistributed) — formal
meaning for a pupil
1) Not shared out or given out yet: undistributed money, undistributed food. tree →
2) (business) Profits kept by a company instead of being paid to the owners. tree →
3) (logic) A term not covering all members of its group, as in «the undistributed middle», a mistake in reasoning. tree →
sense in the lessons
In formal and maths language, «undistributed» is what is left after sharing: if 50 books are given out of 64, 14 are undistributed. In news, aid or vaccines may stay undistributed because of problems. In logic lessons, the «fallacy of the undistributed middle» is a famous wrong argument.
examples
- The charity had 200 undistributed food parcels. tree →
- Of 64 leaflets, 50 were given out, so 14 remained undistributed. tree →
- The prize money is still undistributed. tree →
- Undistributed profits stay in the company. tree →
- Some medicine stayed undistributed in the warehouse. tree →
- «All cats have legs; all dogs have legs; so all dogs are cats» — the error of the undistributed middle. tree →
note
Formal. Built from un- + distributed. In maths: undistributed = total − given out. «Distribute» means share out.
Trees and pragmatics
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