The difference between Deal and Distribution

When used as nouns, deal means a division, a portion, a share, whereas distribution means an act of distributing or state of being distributed.

Deal is also verb with the meaning: to distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one's portion or share.

Deal is also adjective with the meaning: made of deal.

check bellow for the other definitions of Deal and Distribution

  1. Deal as a noun (obsolete):

    A division, a portion, a share.

    Examples:

    "We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king."

  2. Deal as a noun (often followed by ''of''):

    An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by or ).

    Examples:

    "synonyms: batch flock good deagreat deahatfuheap load lot mass mess mickle mint muckle peck pile plenty pot quite a little raft sight slew spate stack tidy sum wad whole lot whole slew"

  1. Deal as a verb (transitive):

    To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one's portion or share.

    Examples:

    "The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory."

  2. Deal as a verb (transitive):

    To administer or give out, as in small portions.

  3. Deal as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To distribute cards to the players in a game.

    Examples:

    "I was dealt four aces."

    "The cards were shuffled, and the croupier dealt."

  4. Deal as a verb (baseball):

    To pitch.

    Examples:

    "The whole crowd waited for him to deal a real humdinger."

  5. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To have dealings or business.

  6. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To conduct oneself, to behave.

  7. Deal as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To take action; to act.

  8. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To trade professionally (followed by in).

    Examples:

    "She deals in gold."

  9. Deal as a verb (transitive):

    To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.

    Examples:

    "This club takes a dim view of members who deal drugs."

  10. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To be concerned with.

  11. Deal as a verb (intransitive):

    To handle, to manage, to cope.

    Examples:

    "I can't deal with this."

    "I don't think he wants to go. — Yeah, well, we're going anyway, and he can deal."

  1. Deal as a noun (archaic, _, in general sense):

    An act of dealing or sharing out.

  2. Deal as a noun:

    The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.

    Examples:

    "I didn’t have a good deal all evening."

    "I believe it's your deal."

  3. Deal as a noun:

    A particular instance of buying or selling; a transaction

    Examples:

    "We need to finalise the deal with Henderson by midnight."

  4. Deal as a noun:

    Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.

  5. Deal as a noun:

    An agreement between parties; an arrangement

    Examples:

    "He made a deal with the devil."

  6. Deal as a noun (informal):

    A situation, occasion, or event.

    Examples:

    "What's the deal?"

  7. Deal as a noun (informal):

    A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.

    Examples:

    "The deal with four tines is called a pitchfork."

  1. Deal as a noun (uncountable):

    Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir)

  2. Deal as a noun (countable):

    A plank of softwood (fir or pine board)

  3. Deal as a noun (countable, archaic):

    A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.

  1. Deal as an adjective:

    Made of deal.

    Examples:

    "A plain deal table"

  1. Distribution as a noun:

    An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

  2. Distribution as a noun:

    An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

  3. Distribution as a noun (business, marketing):

    The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.

  4. Distribution as a noun:

    The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

  5. Distribution as a noun:

    Anything distributed; portion; share.

  6. Distribution as a noun:

    The result of distributing; arrangement.

  7. Distribution as a noun (mathematics, statistics):

    A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.

  8. Distribution as a noun (computing):

    A set of bundled software components; distro.

  9. Distribution as a noun (economics):

    The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

    Examples:

    "The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy."

  10. Distribution as a noun (finance):

    The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.

  11. Distribution as a noun (logic):

    The resolution of a whole into its parts.

  12. Distribution as a noun (printing, historical):

    The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.

  13. Distribution as a noun (steam engines):

    The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.

  14. Distribution as a noun (rhetoric):

    A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.

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