allocate
verbEtymology
From Middle English allocate (the common first word of writs authorizing payment), from Medieval Latin allocātum, substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of allocātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Alternatively, from allocāte, the second-person plural imperative of allocō, compare English liberate (“a warrant for the payment of a pension, allowance, debt, etc.”).
Definitions
To set aside for a purpose.
- Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.
- By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997.
To distribute according to a plan, generally followed by the adposition to.
- The bulk of K–12 education funds are allocated to school districts that in turn pay for the cost of operating schools.
To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
- The memory manager allocates memory to requesting processes until there is no more memory available or until there are no more processes waiting for memory.
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allocated
A writ authorizing payment, allowance, grant.
The neighborhood
- neighborallocable
- neighborallocation
- neighborlieu
- neighborlocate
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at allocate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at allocate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at allocate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA