distribute vs streamline

distribute

verb
  • To be distributive. 

  • 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 deliver or pass out. 

  • To divide into portions and dispense. 

  • To classify or separate into categories. 

  • To apportion (more or less evenly). 

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

streamline

verb
  • To modernise. 

  • To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid. 

  • To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency. 

noun
  • On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind. 

  • A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow. 

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