what dose allocate mean ?

Answer 1

Allocate as in, you have to run errands later so you need to "allocate" or make time to do them. Sometimes in programming you want to allocate memory before hand so later you don't have to worry about not having enough resources (memory) to do what you need to do :)

Answer 2

allocate basically means taking an address for a specific variable

Answer 3

its like you have 10 fingers and you want to figure out where they go. keep one pinkey free as a bass free roam, 2 n the stink 3 in the pink and 4 to grope passing operations

Answer 4

allocating memory for arrays