allocate
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Latin allocātus, perfect passive participle of Latin allocō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + locō. Doublet of allow.
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: ăl'ə-kāt
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæl.ə.keɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈæl.əˌkeɪt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈæl.ə.kæɪt/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɛl.ə.kæɪt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæl.ə.keɪt/
Verb
editallocate (third-person singular simple present allocates, present participle allocating, simple past and past participle allocated)
- To set aside for a purpose.
- Synonyms: appropriate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.
- 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
- 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.
- (computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
- Antonyms: free, deallocate
- 2011, José M. Garrido, Richard Schlesinger, Kenneth Hoganson, Principles of Modern Operating Systems, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 264:
- 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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Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English allocat(e) (“allocated”), originally used as the past participle of allocate, from Latin allocātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Adjective
editallocate (not comparable)
Etymology 3
editFrom 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.”). [1]
Noun
editallocate (plural allocates)
References
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “allocate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editallocate
- inflection of allocare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editallocate f pl
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editLatin
editVerb
editallocāte
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