What's the difference between allot and distribute?

Allot


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To distribute by lot.
  • (v. t.) To distribute, or parcel out in parts or portions; or to distribute to each individual concerned; to assign as a share or lot; to set apart as one's share; to bestow on; to grant; to appoint; as, let every man be contented with that which Providence allots him.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After weeks of battling both in the press and in Albany’s back rooms, $300m was allotted in the state budget to fund pre-K in New York City.
  • (2) [The EC number of the toxin (EC 3.1.4.41) has been allotted by the Nomenclature Committee of IUB, but has not yet been published.]
  • (3) Participants in the study were 10,741 men aged 34-61 at the onset, that were allotted to a study group of 2,955 men (Group B) examined by standardized methods in 1967-'68 (Stage I), 1970-'71 (Stage II), 1974-'76 (Stage III) and 1979-'81 (Stage IV) and three control groups, Group C (2,744 men), Group A (2,755 men) and Group D (2,287 men) examined in Stage II, III and IV respectively.
  • (4) I don’t think, at least in Iowa, her almost celebrity status over some of the others gets her any type of advantage.” Palin confused many onlookers with the directions taken in her remarks, which featured a freewheeling preamble of almost 10 minutes – half the time allotted to each speaker.
  • (5) Three appointments, 1 week apart, were alloted for treatment.
  • (6) These properties distinguish it from those other beta-lactamases that have been allotted to classes on the basis of their amino sequences.
  • (7) Material is allotted them not by whether it is true but by whether they might like it.
  • (8) Newly hatched chicks were allotted to five different climatic treatment groups (28 to 32, 32 to 34, 34 to 35, 35 to 37, and 37 to 40 C) for 2 days after hatch during which feed and water were withheld.
  • (9) David Spilsbury Birmingham • One view of the future: we are to leave Nato, abandon our nuclear deterrent, cultivate our allotments and become a new potato republic on the northern fringe of Europe.
  • (10) The batch of 147 undergraduate medical students (Group I) were trained in maternal and child health (MCH) by allotting them families study wherein either pregnant lady or a new born child was present.
  • (11) A total of 600 Bosbek day-old broiler chicks (Akropong Farms, Kumasi, Ghana) were randomly allotted to six dietary treatments containing 0, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, and 15% palm kernel cake (PKC), respectively.
  • (12) Can it focus on a war when it’s busy allotting prime lands to its officer cadre?
  • (13) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
  • (14) However, there are also strains from cattle which cannot be allotted to one of the known host-specific varieties and also strains which belong to the host-specific variety hominis.
  • (15) A total of 212 patients with acute sports injuries were allotted at random to treatment with 20 mg tenoxicam daily, 20 piroxicam daily or a placebo for ten days.
  • (16) It is also confirmed that magnitude of permeability-area (PA) products for permeation of purified sucrose or mannitol into brain varies inversely with the length of time allotted for tracer circulation in the bloodstream.
  • (17) Angus (A), A X Hereford (H) and Tarentaise X HA heifers (n = 103) were stratified by age and weight within breed-type and location of birth and allotted randomly to the following treatments: 1) heifers exposed to mature bulls (T1; n = 52) or 2) heifers isolated from bulls (T2; n = 51).
  • (18) In the allotted interview space, a meeting room swathed in white fabric to cover the swirly carpet, the atmosphere was cheerful, but tense.
  • (19) Bulls or testosterone-treated cows (TTC) were introduced to cows, randomly allotted to one of four groups, within 72 h postpartum.
  • (20) Having named his cabinet, the new prime minister spends Sunday afternoon tending to his allotment.

Distribute


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
  • (v. t.) To dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.
  • (v. t.) To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.
  • (v. t.) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
  • (v. t.) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
  • (v. t.) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
  • (v. i.) To make distribution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (2) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
  • (3) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
  • (4) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (5) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
  • (6) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (7) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
  • (8) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (9) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
  • (10) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
  • (11) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
  • (12) The regional distribution of beta-adrenoceptor subtypes was found to be similar to that seen in the rat brain.
  • (13) The distribution of gelsolin, a calcium-dependent actin-severing and capping protein, in the retina of the developing and adult rabbit was studied.
  • (14) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
  • (15) Febrile reactions were not distributed randomly among the patients; those with respiratory tract infection experienced more febrile reactions during periods with infection than during periods without.
  • (16) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
  • (17) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
  • (18) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (19) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.
  • (20) In contrast with oligodendrocytes, [Cl-]i in astrocytes is significantly increased (from 20 to 40 mM) above the equilibrium distribution owing to the activity of an inward directed Cl- pump; this suggests a different mechanism of K+ uptake in these cells.