Share vs. Distribution — What's the Difference?

A part or portion belonging to, distributed to, contributed by, or owed by a person or group

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

An equitable portion

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

One of the equal parts into which the capital stock of a company is divided

Something distributed; an allotment

A unit of ownership in a mutual fund or other investment vehicle

The geographic occurrence or range of an organism.

Shares Chiefly British Stocks

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

A plowshare.

(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 accord a share in (something) to another or others

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

To divide and parcel out in shares; apportion

An act of distributing or state of being distributed.

To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly or in turns

An apportionment by law (of funds, property).

To hold or have jointly with another or others

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

To relate (a secret or experience, for example) to another or others.

Anything distributed; portion; share.

(Computers) To make (a digital file) accessible to other users on a network, as for copying and downloading.

The result of distributing; arrangement.

To have a share or part

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

To allow someone to use or enjoy something that one possesses

The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.

To use or enjoy something jointly or in turns

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

To talk about personal experiences or feelings with others.

(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.

A portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.

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

(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.

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.

(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.

(software) A set of bundled software components

(social media) The action of sharing something with other people via social media.

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

(anatomy) The sharebone or pubis.

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

(agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.

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

To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.

(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.

To have or use in common.

(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.

To divide and distribute.

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.

To tell to another.

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

To allow public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network

That which is distributed.

To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

A resolving a whole into its parts.

The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

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

The part which opens the ground for the reception of the seed, in a machine for sowing seed.

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.

A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence.

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

Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend.

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

Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares.

The act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

The pubes; the sharebone.

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

To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to divide.

To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with another.

To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.

To have part; to receive a portion; to partake, enjoy, or suffer with others.

Any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate;

Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group;

The result of parcelling out or sharing;

Any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor;

A sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil

Have in common;

Use jointly or in common

Have, give, or receive a share of;

Give out as one's portion or share

Communicate;