Difference between Stagger and Distribute

What is the difference between Stagger and Distribute?

Stagger as a verb is in standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter. while Distribute as a verb is to divide into portions and dispense.

Stagger

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers. bewilderment; perplexity.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter. To cause to reel or totter. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam. To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next. To schedule in intervals.

Distribute

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To divide into portions and dispense.To supply to retail outlets.To deliver or pass out.To scatter or spread.To apportion (more or less evenly).To classify or separate into categories.To be distributive.

Example sentence: I used to work with mentally disabled people when I was 18 or 19, changing diapers and catheters. I was working, like, 16 hour night shifts, having to distribute meds and go capture people who would break out of the house. Sometimes they'd have seizures, and we'd have to rush them to the hospital. That was an interesting time, very humbling.

We hope you now know whether to use Stagger or Distribute in your sentence.

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