Schedule
['ʃedjuːl;'sked-] or ['skɛdʒul]
Definition
(noun.) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur.
(verb.) plan for an activity or event; 'I've scheduled a concert next week'.
(verb.) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events; 'I scheduled an exam for this afternoon'.
Inputed by Avis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.
(v. t.) To form into, or place in, a schedule.
Inputed by Franklin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Scroll, document.[2]. Inventory, list, CATALOGUE, record, roll, REGISTER.
Editor: Miriam
Definition
n. a piece of paper containing some writing: a list inventory or table.—v.t. to place in a schedule or list.
Edited by Hamilton
Examples
- And this schedule reaches out into the shipping and mailing departments, so arranging it that the first copies off the press are speeded to the far sections of the country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For safe and expeditious operation of trains, where the schedule is only one and one-half minutes, it was imperative that grade crossings should be avoided. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The schedule, sir,' said Pell, guessing at Mr. Weller's meaning, 'the schedule is as plain and satisfactory as pen and ink can make it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But sometimes trains were off schedule, and again and again he would oversleep. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- To which he replied laughingly: I already have a schedule worked out. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- About four hours before the steamer had to get it, the machine was shut down after the test, and a schedule was made out in advance of what each man had to do. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Where's Schedule number four, Mr Rugg? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And questions, now, hinted the demon just waking up in his stomach, somebody may put questions about the schedules. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Editor: Melinda