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Schedule

Sched′ule

(?; in England commonly ?; 277)
,
Noun.
[F.
cédule
, formerly also spelt
schedule
, L.
schedula
, dim. of scheda, scida, a strip of papyrus bark, a leaf of paper; akin to (or perh. from) Gr. [GREEK] a tablet, leaf, and to L.
scindere
to cleave, Gr. [GREEK]. See
Schism
, and cf.
Cedule
.]
A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.
Syn. – Catalogue; list; inventory. see
List
.

Sched′ule

,
Verb.
T.
To form into, or place in, a schedule.

Definition 2024


schedule

schedule

English

Noun

schedule (plural schedules)

  1. (obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note. [14th-17th c.]
  2. (law) A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract. [from 15th c.]
    schedule of tribes
    1. (US, law) One of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification. [from 20th c.]
  3. A timetable, or other time-based plan of events; a plan of what is to occur, and at what time. [from 19th c.]
  4. (computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources. [from 20th c.]

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Verb

schedule (third-person singular simple present schedules, present participle scheduling, simple past and past participle scheduled)

  1. To create a time-schedule.
  2. To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.
    I'll schedule you for three-o'clock then.
    The next elections are scheduled on the 20th of November.

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References

  • “schedule” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  1. “Definition of schedule in English”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Oxford Online Dictionaries, accessed 2014-04-15
  2. “Definition of schedule in English”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Merriam-Webster, accessed 2015-01-31