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Allocate vs Allotted - What's the difference?

allocate | allotted |

As verbs the difference between allocate and allotted

is that allocate is to set aside for a purpose while allotted is past tense of allot.

As an adjective allotted is

assigned or designated.

allocate

English

Verb

(allocat)
  • To set aside for a purpose
  • 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 declare a section of the memory to be used by the program.

    • Antonyms

    * (declare a section of memory) free, deallocate

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    allotted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (allot)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Assigned or designated.
  • * 1969 , Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents , page 58,
    • On the face of it, the President has only so much time—a very allotted time—to do the things he really believes in and thinks must be done.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}

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