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Homework vs Allocate - What's the difference?

homework | allocate |

As a noun homework

is work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher.

As a verb allocate is

to set aside for a purpose.

homework

English

(wikipedia homework)

Noun

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  • Work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher.
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  • Preliminary or preparatory work, such as research.

    • Usage notes

    The term is generally used to refer to primary or secondary school assignments as opposed to college-level coursework.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "homework")

    See also

    * busy work * schoolwork

    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

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