schedule
English
Etymology
From Old French cedule (whence French cédule), from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (skhédē, “papyrus leaf”)
Pronunciation
Noun
schedule (plural schedules)
- (obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note. [14th-17th c.]
- (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
- A timetable, or other time-based plan of events; a plan of what is to occur, and at what time. [from 19th c.]
- (computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources. [from 20th c.]
Translations
time-based plan of events
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(computing) An ordering or allocating of a set of tasks.
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Verb
schedule (third-person singular simple present schedules, present participle scheduling, simple past and past participle scheduled)
- To create a time-schedule.
- 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.
- (Australia, medicine) To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under the Mental Health Act.
- whether or not to schedule a patient
Translations
to create a schedule
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To plan an activity at a specific date or time
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References
- “schedule” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- “Definition of schedule in English”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Oxford Online Dictionaries, accessed 2014-04-15
- “Definition of schedule in English”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Merriam-Webster, accessed 2015-01-31
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