ALLOCATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allocate mean? 

• ALLOCATE (verb)
  The verb ALLOCATE has 1 sense:

1. distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose

  Familiarity information: ALLOCATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLOCATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they allocate    ... he / she / it allocates   
Past simple: allocated   
Past participle: allocated   
-ing form: allocating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

allocate; apportion

Context example:

I'm allocating the rations for the camping trip

Hypernyms (to "allocate" is one way to...):

allot; assign; portion (give out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "allocate"):

reallocate; reapportion (allocate, distribute, or apportion anew)

ration; ration out (distribute in rations, as in the army)

award; present (give, especially as an honor or reward)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence examples:

They allocate the money to them
They allocate them the money

Derivation:

allocable; allocatable (capable of being distributed)

allocation ((computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions)

allocation (the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan)

allocation (a share set aside for a specific purpose)

allocator (a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion)

 Context examples 

A coded value specifying the technique that is used for allocating experimental units.

(Defined Experimental Unit Allocation Method Code, NCI Thesaurus)

The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running.

(Operating System, NCI Thesaurus)

Novel tumors, which are not completely characterized, can be temporarily allocated to this category.

(Carcinoma, Other, of the Mouse Pulmonary System, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

This division (1) plans, directs, coordinates and evaluates the Institute's intramural programs in basic science relating to cellular, molecular, genetic, biochemical and immunological mechanisms relevant to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of cancer; (2) establishes program priorities, allocates resources, integrates the projects of the various laboratories, evaluates program effectiveness and represents the division in management and scientific decision-making meetings within the Institute; (3) identifies the need for and establishes new intramural research activities; (4) supports training and research opportunities in the basic sciences for young investigators; (5) supports the translational research by integrating and coordinating divisional research activities with other NCI divisions, with the institutes, centers and divisions within the NIH as well as with the private sector and the academic research community.

(Division of Basic Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)

This SDTM class describes the plan for the procedures to be followed in a clinical trial, including planned and actual timing of events, control group, method of allocating treatments, blinding methods, assignment of epochs that subjects pass through in the course of a trial.

(CDISC Trial Design Class, NCI Thesaurus)

It showed that those offered an apology when rejected from a set of group tasks, which included a taste test of hot sauce, exacted revenge by allocating more sauce to the person who had rejected them.

(Sometimes You Shouldn't Say Sorry, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)