Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To scatter widely, as in sowing seed.
- intransitive verb To spread abroad; promulgate.
- intransitive verb To become diffused; spread.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To scatter or sow, as seed, for propagation.
- Hence To spread by diffusion or dispersion: generally with reference to some intended or actual result.
- To scatter by promulgation, as opinions or doctrines; propagate by speech or writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb to spread around widely; to sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse.
- verb To spread or extend by dispersion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
sow andscatter principles, ideas, opinions, and errors forgrowth andpropagation , such as seed - verb intransitive To become
scattered .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to become widely known
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Setting up the RedFlag web site to "disseminate" lurid information must mean Draper has to go as well.
Guy Fawkes' blog 2009
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Asked about the use of the word "disseminate" and the prohibition against posting records on the Internet, the spokesperson replied that the language is likely taken from the federal Copyright Act. The notices are "not meant to discourage access requests or the use of the information that is produced in those requests," the spokesperson said.
Tyee - Home 2009
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'disseminate' implies a general vague recognition of this principle of plant-life on the part of humanity.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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The United States, following independence from Britain, likewise did a great deal to disseminate English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The United States, following independence from Britain, likewise did a great deal to disseminate English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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I even held a symposium on this very subject a few years ago and would like to see additional efforts made to broadly disseminate this needed knowledge to a broad audience.
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Initially he tried to expand on the language in the House bill by defining a journalist as any person who has the intent to disseminate information to the public.
Yes, he's a journalist, too Adam L. Penenberg 2011
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Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which "fell dead-born from the press," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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At one level the power of social media is about access – enabling ordinary individuals to tell and disseminate their own stories as well as traditional documentary-makers.
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And the CIA had kept the world from learning how its decisions over three decades had allowed Khan and his network to disseminate far more dangerous nuclear secrets than any outsider knew.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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