distribute vs rathole

distribute

verb
  • To scatter or spread. 

  • To have employees working remotely from multiple locations. 

  • To supply to retail outlets. 

  • 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 deliver or pass out. 

  • 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. 

rathole

verb
  • (of material) to empty only in the center of a hopper or silo, persisting circumferentially. 

  • to take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings. 

  • to hoard. 

  • to surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game. 

noun
  • A pigeonhole. 

  • An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats. 

  • A particularly squalid human residence. 

  • A living area used by mice or rats, or a similar living area used by other animals. 

  • An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges. 

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