disseminate

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Medical College of Georgia ÒThe mission of the Medical College of Georgia is to discover, disseminate, and apply knowledge to improve health and reduce the burden of illness on society.

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  1. transitive verb To scatter widely, as in sowing seed.
  2. transitive verb To spread abroad; promulgate: disseminate information.
  3. intransitive verb To become diffused; spread.

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  • DOJ should study, disseminate, and implement best practices, which include increased and improved use of drug courts and treatment alternatives to incarceration .... —  Sentencing Law and Policy
  • Now I hear that one news release distribution company has enabled PR pros to (mass?) - disseminate their "news" to the Twitter handles of micro-blogging journalists. —  The Flack
  • Medical College of Georgia ÒThe mission of the Medical College of Georgia is to discover, disseminate, and apply knowledge to improve health and reduce the burden of illness on society. —  AugustaChronicle.com: Top News and Blogs
  • Now, when there's all that chatter and distortion and false information, we have to disseminate -- we have to distinguish between truth and fiction. —  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • A general convention of the Union has been held annually since 1877 d) The Princely Knights of Character Castle is an organization founded in 1895 for boys from twelve to eighteen to "inculcate, disseminate, and practise the principles of heroism--endurance--love, purity, and patriotism." —  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin dissēmināre, dissēmināt- : dis-, dis- + sēmināre, to sow (from sēmen, sēmin-, seed; see sē- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin disseminatus, past participle of disseminare (later Italian disseminate = Spanish diseminar = Portuguese disseminar = French disséminer), scatter seed, from dis-, apart, + seminare, sow: see dis- and seminate.
 

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