different between detach vs distribute

English

Etymology

From Old French destachier, from the same root as attach; compare French détacher and Portuguese and Spanish destacar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /d??tæt?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /d??tæt?/
• Rhymes: -æt?

Verb

detach (third-person singular simple present detaches, present participle detaching, simple past and past participle detached)

1. (transitive) To take apart from; to take off.

2. (transitive, military) To separate for a special object or use.

3. (intransitive) To come off something.

Synonyms

• (take apart from): disengage, unfasten; see also Thesaurus:disconnect or Thesaurus:deadhere
• (separate for a special object or use): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
• (come off something): fall off

Antonyms

• attach

Derived terms

• detachable
• detachment

Translations

Anagrams

• Cath ed, cathed, chated, hectad

English

Etymology

From Latin distributus, past participle of distribuere (“to divide, distribute”), from dis- (“apart”) + tribuere (“to give, impart”); see tribute.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??st??bju?t/, /?d?st??bju?t/
• (General American) enPR: d?-str?b?yo?ot, IPA^(key): /d??st??bjut/
• Rhymes: -?bju?t, -?st??bju?t
• Hyphenation: dis?trib?ute

Verb

distribute (third-person singular simple present distributes, present participle distributing, simple past and past participle distributed)

2. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.

4. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.

6. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.

8. (transitive) To scatter or spread.

10. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).

12. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.

14. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
15. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
16. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
17. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
    • 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic

      A term is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to.

Synonyms

• (to divide into portions and dispense): allot, dispend, parcel out; see also Thesaurus:distribute
• (to deliver or pass out): courier
• (to scatter or spread): disperse, sparble, strew; see also Thesaurus:disperse
• (to classify or separate into categories): categorize, sort; see also Thesaurus:classify

Translations

Derived terms

Further reading

• distribute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• distribute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• turbidites

Latin

Etymology

From distrib?tus, participle of distribu? (“distribute, apportion”)

Adverb

distrib?t? (comparative distrib?tius, superlative distrib?tissim?)

1. orderly, methodically

Related terms

• distribu?
• distrib?ti?
• distrib?tus

References

• distribute in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)