"distributer" meaning in All languages combined

See distributer on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: distributers [plural]
Etymology: From distribute + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|distribute|er|id2=agent noun}} distribute + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} distributer (plural distributers)
  1. Alternative form of distributor Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: distributor

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "distribute",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "distribute + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From distribute + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "distributers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "distributer (plural distributers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "distributor"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1788, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:",
          "text": "However, as he kept the post-office, it was imagined he had better opportunities of obtaining news; his paper was thought a better distributer of advertisements than mine, and therefore had many, more, which was a profitable thing to him, and a disadvantage to me; for, tho' I did indeed receive and send papers by the post, yet the publick opinion was otherwise, for what I did send was by bribing the riders, who took them privately, Bradford being unkind enough to forbid it, which occasion'd some resentment on my part; and I thought so meanly of him for it, that, when I afterward came into his situation, I took care never to imitate it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1825, Samuel Johnson, Dr. Johnson's Works= Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1:",
          "text": "Nothing remains, but that, with humble confidence we resign ourselves to almighty goodness, and fall down, without irreverent murmurs, before the sovereign distributer of good and evil, with hope, that though sorrow endureth for a night, yet joy may come in the morning.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:",
          "text": "The first of these maintains that Fichte's standpoint and that of his opponents are related as duty and advantage, sensible and suprasensible, and that the substantial God of his accusers, to be derived from the sensibility, is, as personified fate, as the distributer of all happiness and unhappiness to finite beings, a miserable fetich.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain:",
          "text": "The irrigating ditch is an impartial distributer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 March 28, David McGuire, “At a Glance: MGM v. Grokster”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2017-02-01:",
          "text": "[I]n 2001 a federal judge forced Napster to close its doors (it has since relaunched under different ownership as a legitimate distributer of copyrighted music).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of distributor"
      ],
      "id": "en-distributer-en-noun-qDcXBqTo",
      "links": [
        [
          "distributor",
          "distributor#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "distributer"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "distribute",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "distribute + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From distribute + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "distributers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "distributer (plural distributers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "distributor"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1788, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin:",
          "text": "However, as he kept the post-office, it was imagined he had better opportunities of obtaining news; his paper was thought a better distributer of advertisements than mine, and therefore had many, more, which was a profitable thing to him, and a disadvantage to me; for, tho' I did indeed receive and send papers by the post, yet the publick opinion was otherwise, for what I did send was by bribing the riders, who took them privately, Bradford being unkind enough to forbid it, which occasion'd some resentment on my part; and I thought so meanly of him for it, that, when I afterward came into his situation, I took care never to imitate it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1825, Samuel Johnson, Dr. Johnson's Works= Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1:",
          "text": "Nothing remains, but that, with humble confidence we resign ourselves to almighty goodness, and fall down, without irreverent murmurs, before the sovereign distributer of good and evil, with hope, that though sorrow endureth for a night, yet joy may come in the morning.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:",
          "text": "The first of these maintains that Fichte's standpoint and that of his opponents are related as duty and advantage, sensible and suprasensible, and that the substantial God of his accusers, to be derived from the sensibility, is, as personified fate, as the distributer of all happiness and unhappiness to finite beings, a miserable fetich.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain:",
          "text": "The irrigating ditch is an impartial distributer.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 March 28, David McGuire, “At a Glance: MGM v. Grokster”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2017-02-01:",
          "text": "[I]n 2001 a federal judge forced Napster to close its doors (it has since relaunched under different ownership as a legitimate distributer of copyrighted music).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of distributor"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "distributor",
          "distributor#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "distributer"
}

Download raw JSONL data for distributer meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.