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allocator — Everyday, meaning 1: A person or thing that shares out or gives out parts of something, such as money, places or jobs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computing) Part of a computer program that hands out memory space when it is needed.↗ Example: The allocator gave each team a room for the project.↗ · The teacher acted as the allocator of jobs for the class trip.↗ · A memory allocator gives programs the space they need.↗ · The ticket allocator made sure every family got two seats.↗ · The money allocator divided the budget between the clubs.↗ · The computer's allocator ran out of free memory.↗ · Who is the allocator of the parking spaces?↗

allophone — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: One of the different ways of saying the same speech sound in a language, which does not change the meaning of a word.↗

allosaurus — Everyday, meaning 1: A large meat-eating dinosaur that walked on two legs and lived about 150 million years ago, in the Jurassic period, in what is now North America and Europe.↗ Example: Allosaurus was a fierce Jurassic hunter.↗ · An allosaurus walked on two strong legs.↗ · Allosaurus may have hunted stegosaurus.↗ · We saw an allosaurus skeleton at the museum.↗ · Allosaurus lived millions of years before T. rex.↗ · The allosaurus had three claws on each hand.↗

allot — Everyday, meaning 1: To allot is to give a share or an amount of something to someone, or to set time aside for something.↗ Example: Each group was allotted one table.↗ · We were allotted 20 minutes to finish the test.↗ · The food was allotted fairly.↗ · Finish within the allotted time.↗ · Each child was allotted 4 tickets, so 5 children got 20.↗ · Seats are allotted on arrival.↗ · In many cases, indeed, we find that one version of a story will allot to a Baba Yaga the part which in another version is played by a Witch.↗ · In associating the particular letters to each planet the learned Jesuit Kircher allots Beth to the Sun, Gimel to Venus, Daleth to Mercury, Kaph to Luna, Peh to Saturn, Resh to Jupiter, and Tau to Mars.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Moreover Thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, which Thou didst allot quarter by quarter; so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.↗ (Writings NEH.9.22, JPS 1917)↗ · all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, even all the Zidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel; only allot thou it unto Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.↗ (Prophets JOS.13.6, JPS 1917)↗

allotment — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Ireland, Australia) An allotment is a small piece of land people rent to grow vegetables, fruit and flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) An allotment is a share or amount of something given out.↗ Example: Grandad grows potatoes on his allotment.↗ · We picked strawberries at the allotment.↗ · There is a waiting list for allotments in our town.↗ · Each class got an allotment of time in the hall.↗ · The allotment has a little shed.↗ · Her allotment of tickets was four.↗ · This Hebrew version omits the allotment of the remaining six.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Note.—This is a modern illustration of the allotment of the Seven Letters; it is not found in the ancient copies of the "Sepher Yetzirah."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Note.—This is a modern illustration of the allotment of the Twelve Letters; it is not found in the ancient copies of the "Sepher Yetzirah."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

allotted — Everyday, meaning 1: Allotted means given out as a share for a purpose.↗ e.g. "each team has an allotted area".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An allotted time is the amount of time you are given to do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To allot means to give or share out a set amount.↗ e.g. "the teacher allotted ten minutes to each group".↗ Example: You must finish the test in the allotted time.↗ · Each child was allotted two biscuits.↗ · The teacher allotted 5 minutes to each speaker.↗ · We parked in our allotted space.↗ · The money allotted to the trip ran out fast.↗ · In the allotted hour we wrote three stories.↗ · Grandpa grows carrots on his allotment.↗ · Well they got ready and went off; Katoma was allotted the post of coachman.↗ · and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that He had not allotted unto them; (Torah DEU.29.26, JPS 1917)↗ · Remove far from me falsehood and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with mine allotted bread; (Writings PRO.30.8, JPS 1917)↗ · He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.↗ (Writings PSA.78.55, JPS 1917)↗

allow — Everyday, meaning 1: To let someone do something; to give permission.↗ e.g. "Dogs are not allowed."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make it possible.↗ e.g. "The bridge allows people to cross."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To plan or keep time, money or space for something.↗ e.g. "Allow ten minutes to walk."↗ Example: Are we allowed to eat in class?↗ · Dogs are not allowed in the shop.↗ · Mum allowed me to stay up late.↗ · Allow twenty minutes for the cake to cool.↗ · The ramp allows wheelchairs to get in.↗ · No running is allowed by the pool.↗ · Allow for traffic when you plan.↗ · Phones are not allowed during the test.↗ · Will you allow me to go with you?”↗ · Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can't offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · In this interpretation, they are ten elemental entities or properties which bind or restrain primordial תֹּהוּ tohu, 'chaos, void, waste(land)' [Genesis 1:2], allowing structure and order to exist in creation.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The Samaritans still to this day preserve a tradition allowing Resh to occur in both single and double forms, bearing a distinction comparable to the difference between the Spanish single r of pero and double rr of perro.]↗ Taw-Thaw.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

allowance — Everyday, meaning 1: An allowance is an amount of money given regularly, for example the money parents give a child each week (US/Canada; UK usually «pocket money»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An allowance is the amount of something you are allowed, as in a baggage allowance.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To make allowances for someone means to be kinder or less strict because of their problems.↗ Example: My allowance is 5 dollars a week.↗ · If Jo saves her whole allowance of 6 pounds for 4 weeks, how much will she have?↗ · The airline's baggage allowance is one bag of 20 kilograms.↗ · The daily allowance of sugar for children is small.↗ · Make allowances for Tom; he is new here.↗ · She spent half her allowance on comics.↗ · She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley.↗ · And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.↗ (Prophets 2KI.25.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.↗ (Prophets JER.52.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over thee, and have diminished thine allowance, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, that are ashamed of thy lewd way.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.27, JPS 1917)↗

alloy — Everyday, meaning 1: An alloy is a metal made by mixing two or more metals, or a metal with another element, to make it stronger or better.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Alloy wheels are car wheels made of a light metal alloy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To alloy means to mix metals together to make an alloy.↗ Example: Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon.↗ · Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin.↗ · Coins are usually made of alloys.↗ · Dad's car has shiny alloy wheels.↗ · Alloys can be harder than pure metals.↗ · The Bronze Age began when people learned to make a new alloy.↗ · And I will turn My hand upon thee, and purge away thy dross as with lye, and will take away all thine alloy; (Prophets ISA.1.25, JPS 1917)↗

allude — Everyday, meaning 1: To allude to something is to mention it briefly or indirectly, without saying it outright.↗ Example: She alluded to the storm without naming it.↗ · He alluded to his old job when he spoke of the mill.↗ · The story alludes to an earlier war between the kingdoms.↗

allure — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To attract someone by offering something pleasing, or to tempt them gently.↗ Example: Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly unto her.↗ (Prophets HOS.2.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, He hath allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table is full of fatness; (Writings JOB.36.16, JPS 1917)↗

allusion — Everyday, meaning 1: An allusion is a short mention of a story, person or event that points to it without explaining it fully: «a joke with an allusion to the giant».↗ Example: The poem makes an allusion to a famous king.↗ · Did you spot the allusion to the three little pigs?↗ · The early Greek poets make only scanty allusions to Erebus.↗

ally — Everyday, meaning 1: A person, group or country that agrees to help and support you, especially against someone else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To join with someone to help and support each other.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Someone who supports a group that is treated unfairly.↗ Example: France was Britain's ally in the war.↗ · When others teased him, she was his ally.↗ · The two countries became allies.↗ · Be an ally: speak up when someone is bullied.↗ · The rebels allied themselves with the farmers.↗ · Having one ally in a new school helps a lot.↗ · All these came as allies unto the vale of Siddim — the same is the Salt Sea.↗ (Torah GEN.14.3, JPS 1917)↗

almanac — Everyday, meaning 1: A book published every year with a calendar and facts like sunrise times, tides, the moon's phases and weather predictions.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A yearly book of facts and figures about a subject, like sport or a country.↗ Example: Grandpa checks the almanac for the full moon.↗ · The almanac lists sunrise times for every day.↗ · Benjamin Franklin published a famous almanac.↗ · The football almanac has every score since 1888.↗ · Farmers used almanacs to decide when to plant.↗ · Old almanacs gave weather guesses, not always right.↗

almighty — Everyday, meaning 1: Almighty means having all power, so strong that nothing can stop it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «The Almighty» is a name for God in old tales.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) «an almighty crash» means a very loud or very big one.↗ Example: The Almighty filled the flowers with His love.↗ · The child flew into the presence of the Almighty.↗ · There was an almighty crash as the tree fell.↗ · The giant gave an almighty roar.↗ · And God said unto him: 'I am God Almighty.↗ (Torah GEN.35.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a congregation of peoples; (Torah GEN.28.3, JPS 1917)↗ · and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release unto you your other brother and Benjamin.↗ (Torah GEN.43.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?↗ (Writings JOB.8.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall he that reproveth contend with the Almighty?↗ (Writings JOB.40.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty?↗ (Writings JOB.11.7, JPS 1917)↗

almond — Everyday, meaning 1: An oval nut with a brown skin, from the almond tree, eaten raw, roasted or used in baking.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The tree that the nut grows on, with pink or white blossom.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Here it means the almond tree or its flower, not the nut.↗ Example: She put almonds on her porridge.↗ · Almond milk is made from almonds and water.↗ · Marzipan is made from ground almonds and sugar.↗ · My friend is allergic to almonds, so we don't share snacks.↗ · The almond tree had pink blossom.↗ · The bag contained 30 almonds shared among 5 children.↗ · On the left, just where the heart is, the gingerbread man had an almond stuck in to represent it, but the maiden was honey cake all over.↗ · And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.25.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof; (Torah EXO.37.20, JPS 1917)↗ · three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower.↗ (Torah EXO.37.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 'Jeremiah, what seest thou?'↗ And I said: 'I see a rod of an almond-tree.'↗ (Prophets JER.1.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.↗ (Torah EXO.25.34, JPS 1917) · "I flew beneath green palm-trees, and amidst the blooming almond-trees," sang the canary.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;↗ (Torah EXO.37.20, JPS 1917)

almost — Everyday, meaning 1: Almost means very nearly but not completely: «It is almost ten o'clock».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Almost can mean that something nearly happened but did not: «I almost fell».↗ Example: It is almost bedtime.↗ · I almost forgot my homework.↗ · We are almost there!↗ · Almost all the children came to the party.↗ · The jar is almost empty.↗ · She almost fell off the wall.↗ · I almost never eat sweets.↗ · The answer is almost 50 — it's 49.↗ · You have made me almost lame!”↗ · And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me.'↗ (Torah EXO.17.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Soul; the word is NPSh, which is commonly translated soul, meaning the living personality of man, animal or existing thing : it corresponds almost to the Theosophic Prana plus the stimulus of Kama.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.↗ (Writings PSA.73.2, JPS 1917)↗ · They had almost consumed me upon earth; but as for me, I forsook not Thy precepts.↗ (Writings PSA.119.87, JPS 1917)↗