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DISSEMINATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to become widely known

Example:

broadcast the news

Synonyms:

broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "disseminate" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Cause:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Verb group:

circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disseminate"):

podcast (distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer)

sow (introduce into an environment)

generalise; generalize; popularise; popularize; vulgarise; vulgarize (cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use)

carry; run (include as the content; broadcast or publicize)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

dissemination (the act of dispersing or diffusing something)

dissemination (the property of being diffused or dispersed)

dissemination (the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate)

disseminative (spreading by diffusion)

disseminator (someone who spreads the news)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A regimen administered in four phases that is used for the treatment of disseminated, childhood, anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL).

(HM89 Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

The disseminated form is generally fatal if untreated.

(Histoplasmosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Developed by Strong (1920), the CBA/J mouse was disseminated to Andervont (1947) and then to Jackson Laboratory (1948).

(CBA/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

Choriocarcinomas disseminate rapidly through the hematogenous route; the lungs are most frequently affected.

(Choriocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Disseminated to Harlan Sprague-Dawley from laboratory of Segaloff (Alton Ochsner Medican Foundation) in 1956.

(ACI/Seg, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may present with disseminated intravascular coagulation.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with t(9;11)(p22;q23); MLLT3-MLL, NCI Thesaurus)

Originally disseminated by Detweiler and carried by Furth (1928-1936) and the Rockefeller Institute for subsequent generations.

(AKR/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples include adenomatoid tumor and disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis.

(Benign Peritoneal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients present with cutaneous tumors and disseminated disease.

(Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples of benign neoplasms include adenomatoid tumor and disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis.

(Peritoneal Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)