Allocated vs Allocates - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between allocated and allocates

is that allocated is (allocate) while allocates is (allocate).

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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.

* (declare a section of memory) free, deallocate

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