schedule

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.

Noun

  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. - 1953, Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton, Roman Holiday, spoken by Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck):

    Synonyms: timeline timetable

  2. A serial record of items, systematically arranged.

    Synonyms: catalog list listing register registry table

  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.
    • schedule of tribes

    1. (US, law, often capitalized) One of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.

      • Heroin is a Schedule I drug with a high potential for abuse.
      • 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...

    2. (Australia, law, medicine) One of the nine schedules of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons. Identical to the American usage above.

  4. An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
  5. A slip of paper; a short note.
    • He demands the blood-written schedule back from the demon, who refuses to give it up - 1900, John the Stylite, translated by Agnes Smith Lewis, Select Narratives of Holy Women (Studia Sinaitica; X), Logos edition,...

Origin

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.

Forms

schedules Schedule

Derived

ahead of schedule behind schedule fee schedule Keeling schedule on schedule payment schedule scheduleless sleep schedule subschedule vesting schedule

Verb

  1. To create a time-schedule.
  2. To plan (an activity or event) for a specific date or time.
    • The next elections are scheduled on the twentieth of November.

    Synonyms: make

  3. 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.

    Synonyms: sign up register enroll book

  4. 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

    Synonyms: section commit

  5. To classify as a controlled substance.
    • Many harm reduction groups and drug policy experts question the long-term efficacy of scheduling xylazine. - 2023 April 20, Jan Hoffman, “The Fight Over a Drug That Is Great for Horses but Horrific for Humans”, in The...

Forms

schedules scheduling scheduled Schedule

Derived

misschedule overschedule preschedule reschedule scheduler underschedule unschedule unscheduled