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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#m1)

2) Distributed also means spread out over an area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#x1)
- 48 apples were distributed equally into 6 baskets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#x2)
- She distributed the cards to her friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#x3)
- How many did each get if 40 were distributed among 8? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#x4)
- Seeds are distributed by the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#x5)
- Food was distributed after the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#x6)
- The tests were distributed at 9 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#x7)
- How unequally things are distributed in this world! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.347/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «distributed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distributed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.