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Assigns vs Allocate - What's the difference?

assigns | allocate |

As verbs the difference between assigns and allocate

is that assigns is (assign) while allocate is to set aside for a purpose.

As a noun assigns

is .

assigns

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (assign)
  • Anagrams

    *

    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