array vs distribute

array

verb
  • To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal. 

  • To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time. 

  • To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire. 

noun
  • A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court. 

  • A militia. 

  • An orderly series, arrangement or sequence. 

  • Clothing and ornamentation. 

  • A microarray. 

  • A group of hedgehogs. 

  • A collection laid out to be viewed in full. 

  • Common name for matrix. 

  • Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle. 

  • A large collection. 

  • Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices. 

distribute

verb
  • To deliver or pass out. 

  • To have employees working remotely from multiple locations. 

  • To supply to retail outlets. 

  • To scatter or spread. 

  • To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases. 

  • To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise. 

  • To divide into portions and dispense. 

  • To classify or separate into categories. 

  • To be distributive. 

  • To apportion (more or less evenly). 

  • To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table. 

How often have the words array and distribute occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )