Selling vs. Distribution — What's the Difference?

To exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent

The process of marketing and supplying goods, especially to retailers.

To offer or have available for sale

(Law) The transmission of inherited property to its heirs after taxes, debts, and costs of the estate have been paid.

To give up or surrender in exchange for a price or reward

Something distributed; an allotment

To be purchased in (a certain quantity); achieve sales of

The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.

To bring about or encourage sales of; promote

The geographic occurrence or range of a custom, usage, or other feature.

To cause to be accepted; advocate successfully

(Statistics) A characterization of the occurrence of the actual unique values in a set of data (as in a frequency distribution) or of the theoretical unique values of a random variable (as in a probability distribution).

To persuade (another) to recognize the worth or desirability of something

(Mathematics) A generalized function used in the study of partial differential equations.

To exchange ownership for money or its equivalent; engage in selling

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

To be sold or be on sale

An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

To attract prospective buyers; be popular on the market

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

To be approved of; gain acceptance

Anything distributed; portion; share.

An act or instance of selling

The result of distributing; arrangement.

Something that sells or gains acceptance in a particular way

The total number of something sold or delivered to the clients.

(Slang) A deception; a hoax.

The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

Action of the verb to sell.

(economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.

Skill at salesmanship.

(card games) The way in which a player's hand is divided in suits, or in which a particular suit is divided between the players.

Present participle of sell

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

The exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money

A subset of the tangent bundle of a manifold that satisfies certain properties; used to construct the notions of integrability and foliation of a manifold.

(software) A set of bundled software components

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

(logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.

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

(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.

(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.

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.

Separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.

That which is distributed.

A resolving a whole into its parts.

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

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

(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

The spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume

The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

The commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer