schedule

[skej-ool, -ool, -oo-uhl; British shed-yool, shej-ool]

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noun

a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.

a series of things to be done or of events to occur at or during a particular time or period: He always has a full schedule.

a timetable.

a written or printed statement of details, often in classified or tabular form, especially one forming an appendix or explanatory addition to another document.

Obsolete. a written paper.

verb (used with object), sched·uled, sched·ul·ing.

to make a schedule of or enter in a schedule.

to plan for a certain date: to schedule publication for June.

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Origin of schedule

1350–1400; < Late Latin schedula, equivalent to Latin sched(a) leaf of paper + -ula -ule; replacing Middle English cedule, sedule < Middle French < Late Latin, as above

SYNONYMS FOR schedule

4. table, register. See list¹. 6. register, list, enroll, tabulate.

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Related forms

sched·u·lar, adjectivesched·ul·er, nounpre·sched·ule, verb (used with object), pre·sched·uled, pre·sched·ul·ing.sub·sched·ule, noun

un·sched·uled, adjectivewell-sched·uled, adjective

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Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link or infrared pointer at this point.
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We were on it for forty minutes of the film, a considerable part of our schedule.
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Just plug it into any TV and get watching—no need to schedule an installation.
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It remains a Schedule I narcotic to this day, considered as dangerous and addictive by the federal government as heroin and MDMA.
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The schedule tells us the names of the fields and of the farm-houses.
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If the caller stays thirty minutes, it's two messages,—in other words I'm on a fifteen-minute schedule.
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Mr. Lawson was particularly concerned, as we all are, in keeping the schedule.
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Ice continued to arrive on schedule time, but as it was almost as dear as at home, they had to use it carefully.
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Throughout the stay in the trenches, the various fatigues should be assigned by roster and carried out according to schedule.
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British Dictionary definitions for schedule

schedule

noun

a plan of procedure for a project, allotting the work to be done and the time for it

a list of itemsa schedule of fixed prices

a list of times, esp of arrivals and departures; timetable

a list of tasks to be performed, esp within a set period

law a list or inventory, usually supplementary to a contract, will, etc

on schedule at the expected or planned time

verb (tr)

to make a schedule of or place in a schedule

to plan to occur at a certain time

Derived Formsschedular, adjective

Word Origin for schedule

C14: earlier cedule, sedule via Old French from Late Latin schedula small piece of paper, from Latin scheda sheet of paper

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Word Origin and History for schedule

schedule

late 14c., sedule, cedule "ticket, label, slip of paper with writing on it," from Old French cedule (Modern French cédule), from Late Latin schedula "strip of paper" (in Medieval Latin also "a note, schedule"), diminutive of Latin scheda, scida "one of the strips forming a papyrus sheet," from Greek skhida "splinter," from stem of skhizein "to cleave, split" (see shed (v.)). Also from the Latin word are Spanish cédula, German Zettel.

The notion is of slips of paper attached to a document as an appendix (a sense maintained in U.S. tax forms). The specific meaning "printed timetable" is first recorded 1863 in railway use. Modern spelling is a 15c. imitation of Latin, but pronunciation remained "sed-yul" for centuries afterward; the modern British pronunciation ("shed-yul") is from French influence, while the U.S. pronunciation ("sked-yul") is from the practice of Webster, based on the Greek original.

schedule

"make a schedule of, 1855; include in a schedule, 1862; from schedule (n.). Related: Scheduled; scheduling.

Idioms and Phrases with schedule

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see on schedule.

schedule

noun

verb (used with object), sched·uled, sched·ul·ing.

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