schedule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈskɛd͡ʒuːl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈʃɛdjuːl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈskɛdjuːl/
ipa: /ˈskɛd͡ʒʊl/
ipa: /ˈskɛd͡ʒ(u)(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈskɛd͡ʒu(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈʃɛd͡ʒu(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈʃed͡ʒʉːl/
ipa: /ˈsked͡ʒʉːl/
ipa: /ˈskedjʉːl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʃɛˈɖ(j)ul/
note: Indic
ipa: /sk(ʰ)ɛˈɖ(j)ul/
ipa: /ˈskɛd͡ʒuəl/
note: l-vocalisation
ipa: [skʰɛ˥d͡ʒow˩]
ipa: /ˈsɛdjuːl/
ipa: /ˈsɛd͡ʒuːl/
Forms: form: schedules
form: Schedule
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.
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.
Senses: examples: text: To complete on time, we must follow the schedule.
synonyms: timeline
timetable
glosses: 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.
synonyms: catalog
list
listing
register
registry
table
glosses: A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
examples: text: schedule of tribes
topics: law
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Heroin is a Schedule I drug with a high potential for abuse.
text: Currently, cannabis/marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug, meaning it defined as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” This is the same designation given to LSD, heroin and ecstasy.
ref: 2022 October 13, Shawn Radcliffe, “What Happens if Marijuana is No Longer Classified as Schedule 1 Drug?”, in healthline, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2023:
topics: law
glosses: 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.
One of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
topics: law
medicine
sciences
glosses: 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.
One of the nine schedules of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons. Identical to the American usage above.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
examples: text: He demands the blood-written schedule back from the demon, who refuses to give it up
ref: 1900, John the Stylite, translated by Agnes Smith Lewis, Select Narratives of Holy Women (Studia Sinaitica; X), Logos edition, London; Cambridge University Press Warehouse: C. J. Clay and Sons, page xxix:
glosses: A slip of paper; a short note.
Derived terms: ahead of schedule
behind schedule
fee schedule
Keeling schedule
on schedule
payment schedule
scheduleless
sleep schedule
subschedule
vesting schedule