Disperse vs Allocate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between disperse and allocate

is that disperse is while allocate is to set aside for a purpose.

(intransitive) To scatter in different directions

The Jews are dispersed among all nations.

* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.

* Cowper

Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .

(intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate

(intransitive) To disseminate

(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract

(intransitive) To distribute throughout

* Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite similarity.

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(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.

* (declare a section of memory) free, deallocate