Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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“allocated” is a form of

allocate

UK /ˈæl.ə.keɪt/ · US /ˈæl.əˌkeɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms allocates allocating allocated

  1. verb To set aside for a purpose. “Please do not eat the meringue, as it is allocated for the dinner party tomorrow.”
  2. verb 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.”
  3. verb (computing) To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
  4. adjective (obsolete, of a pension or allowance) allocated
  5. noun (obsolete, UK, historical, law) A writ authorizing payment, allowance, grant.

Synonyms

appropriate earmark shelve assign dedicate detach designate preselect put aside secern secernate separate sepose sequester set apart set aside apportion

Antonyms

free deallocate

Etymology

From Latin allocātus, perfect passive participle of Latin allocō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to”) + locō. Doublet of allow. By surface analysis, al- + locate.

From Middle English allocat(e) (“allocated”), originally used as the past participle of allocate, from Latin allocātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

From Middle English allocate (the common first word of writs authorizing payment), from Medieval Latin allocātum, substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of allocātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Alternatively, from allocāte, the second-person plural imperative of allocō, compare English liberate (“a warrant for the payment of a pension, allowance, debt, etc.”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke.
  2. verb To localize. [R.]

Etymology [LL. allocatus, p. p. of allocare, fr. L. ad + locare to place. See Allow.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “allocate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details