schedule
Forms
- Plural
- schedules
- present (v1)
- schedule
- past (v2)
- scheduled
- past participle (v3)
- scheduled
- present participle
- scheduling
- 3rd person singular
- schedules
Definitions
1.A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
- To complete on time, we must follow the schedule.
- Oh, I didn't mean a work…school schedule. I meant a fun schedule.
2.A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
- They had to change their schedule because the train arrived late.
3.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.
- Heroin is a Schedule I drug with a high potential for abuse.
4.An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
- They had to change their schedule because the train arrived late.
1.To plan (an activity or event) for a specific date or time.
- The next elections are scheduled on the twentieth of November.
2.To add (a name) to the list of those participating in an event; to reserve a place or time for.
- I am scheduled for classes next month.
- I'll schedule you for three-o'clock then.
3.To create a time-schedule.
4.To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2251
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cedule, from Middle French cedule (whence French cédule), from Old French cedule, from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (skhédē, “papyrus leaf”), from Proto-Hellenic *skʰíďďō, from Proto-Indo-European *skid-yé-ti, from *skeyd- (“to divide, split”). Doublet of cedula and cedule.