schedule

• Schedule (law)

From Old French cedule (whence French cédule), 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.

This word was historically pronounced /ˈsɛdjuːl/, /ˈsɛdʒuːl/; the pronunciations with /ʃ/ and /sk/ are due to the spelling (the latter may have been reinforced by learned influence); compare schism.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛdjuːl/, /ˈʃɛdʒuːl/, /ˈskɛdjuːl/, /ˈskɛdʒuːl/[1]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskɛd͡ʒʊl/, /ˈskɛd͡ʒəl/, /ˈskɛd͡ʒuəl/, /ˈskɛd͡ʒul/[2]

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈskɛd͡ʒu(ə)l/, /ˈskɛd͡ʒuːl/, /ˈʃɛd͡ʒu(ə)l/, /ˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛdjuːl/
• (Pakistan) IPA^(key): /ˈʃeˌduːl/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛdjuːl/, /ˈsɛd͡ʒuːl/

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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 serial record of items, systematically arranged.

   Synonyms: catalog, list, listing, register, registry, table

4. 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. [from 19th c.]

   stick to the schedule

   we're running behind schedule

   things are happening ahead of schedule

   Synonyms: timeline, timetable

5. (computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources. [from 20th c.]

• → Cebuano: eskedyul
• → Indonesian: skedul
• → Japanese: スケジュール
• → Korean: 스케줄 (seukejul)

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 twentieth of November.

3. To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.

   I am scheduled for classes next month.

   Synonyms: sign up, register, reserve, enroll, book

4. (Australia, medicine) To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.

   whether or not to schedule a patient

   Synonym: (UK) section

• “schedule” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

• schedule (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Schedule in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)