What does "distribute" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.
2. 3.(Printing) (a) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases. (b) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
3. 4.(Logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise. 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. Whately.
4. 5.To make distribution. Distributing to the necessity of saints. Rom. xii. 13.