schedule

See also: Schedule

English

Alternative forms

• Schedule (law)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

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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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Noun

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.]

Derived terms

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

 

Descendants

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

Translations

a serial record of items, systematically arranged — See also translations at catalog,‎ list,‎ listing,‎ register,‎ registry,‎ table

• Bulgarian: списък (bg) m (spisǎk), опис (bg) m (opis)
• Czech: seznam (cs) m, registr m, katalog (cs) m
• Hungarian: jegyzék (hu), táblázat (hu), (especially one with times of arrivals and departures) menetrend (hu)
• Malayalam: പട്ടിക (ml) (paṭṭika)
• Tibetan: ཐོ (tho)

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

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• Afrikaans: skedule (af)
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• American Sign Language: 4@RadialPalm-OpenB@CenterChesthigh Contact 4@UlnarPalm 4@BasePalm Contact 4@TipFinger
• Arabic: جَدْوَل‎ m (jadwal), جَدْوَل أَعْمَال‎ m (jadwal ʔaʕmāl), جَدْوَل مَوَاعِيد‎ m (jadwal mawāʕīd)
• Armenian: հաղորդում (hy) (hałordum)
• Azerbaijani: cədvəl (az), qrafik
• Belarusian: раскла́д m (rasklád), гра́фік m (hráfik)
• Bengali: সময়সূচী (somoẏsūcī)
• Bulgarian: разписа́ние n (razpisánie), програ́ма (bg) f (prográma), гра́фик (bg) m (gráfik)
• Burmese: အချိန်စာရင်း (my) (a.hkyincarang:)
• Catalan: horari m, programa (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 時間表／时间表 (zh) (shíjiānbiǎo), 時刻表／时刻表 (zh) (shíkèbiǎo), (e.g. flights) 班期 (zh) (bānqī), 日程 (zh) (rìchéng), 附表 (fùbiǎo)

• Czech: rozvrh (cs) m, harmonogram m
• Danish: tidsplan c, skema n, timeplan c, køreplan (da) c
• Dutch: programma (nl) n, planning (nl) f
• Estonian: ajakava, sõiduplaan (timetable for trains, etc.)
• Finnish: aikataulu (fi)
• French: planning (fr) m, horaire (fr) m, ordonnancement (fr) m, emploi du temps (fr)
• Georgian: განრიგი (ganrigi)
• German: Termin (de) m, Programm (de) n, Zeitplan (de) m
• Greek: χρονοδιάγραμμα (el) n (chronodiágramma), πρόγραμμα (el) n (prógramma)
• Hebrew: לוּחַ זְמַנִים‎ (he) m (lúakh zmaním)
• Hindi: अनुसूची (hi) f (anusūcī), शेड्यूल m (śeḍyūl)
• Hungarian: beosztás (hu), ütemterv (hu), ütemezés (hu), munkaterv (hu), terv (hu)
• Icelandic: stundaskrá f
• Indonesian: jadwal (id)
• Italian: programma (it) m, orario (it) m, ruolino di marcia m
• Japanese: 予定 (ja) (よてい, yotei), 日程 (ja) (にってい, nittei), スケジュール (ja) (sukejūru)
• Kabuverdianu: oráriu
• Kazakh: кесте (keste)
• Khmer: កាលវិភាគ (km) (kaal viphiək), តារាងកាល (taaraang kaal)
• Korean: 스케줄 (ko) (seukejul), 시간표(時間表) (ko) (siganpyo), 일정(日程) (ko) (iljeong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pîlan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: расписание (raspisaniye), график (ky) (grafik)
• Lao: ຕາຕາລາງການ (tā tā lāng kān), ກຳນົດການ (kam not kān)
• Latvian: saraksts m, grafiks m
• Lithuanian: sąrašas (lt) m, tvarkaraštis m, grafikas m
• Luxembourgish: Horaire m, Programm m, Zäitplang m
• Macedonian: распоред m (raspored), програма f (programa)
• Malay: jadual (ms)
• Maori: wātaka
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хуваарь (mn) (xuvaarʹ)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: timeplan (no) m

• Oromo: sagantee
• Pashto: مهالوېش‎ m (mahālwéš)
• Persian: جدول زمانی‎ (jadval-e zamâni), جدول‎ (fa) (jadval)
• Plautdietsch: Tietplon m
• Polish: harmonogram (pl), plan (pl) m, grafik (pl) m, agenda (pl) f
• Portuguese: agenda (pt), cronograma (pt), programação (pt) m (TV)
• Romanian: orar (ro) n, agendă (ro) f
• Russian: расписа́ние (ru) n (raspisánije), гра́фик (ru) m (gráfik), програ́мма (ru) f (prográmma), план (ru) m (plan)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра̏споре̄д m

  Roman: rȁsporēd (sh) m

• Slovak: rozvrh m, harmonogram (sk) m
• Slovene: urnik (sl) m
• Spanish: horario (es) m, itinerario m, programación (es) f (TV)
• Swedish: schema (sv) n, tidsschema (sv) n
• Tagalog: talaorasan
• Tajik: ҷадвал (jadval), график (tg) (grafik)
• Thai: ตาราง (th) (dtaa-raang), กำหนดการ (th) (gam-nòt-gaan)
• Tibetan: དུས་ཚོད་རེའུ་མིག (dus tshod re'u mig), ལས་འཆར (las 'char), འཆར་གཞི ('char gzhi)
• Turkish: program (tr), tarife (tr), bağdarlama (tr), cetvel (tr)
• Ukrainian: ро́зклад m (rózklad), гра́фік m (hráfik)
• Uzbek: jadval (uz), grafik (uz)
• Vietnamese: lịch trình (vi), thời khắc biểu (vi), thời gian biểu (vi)
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• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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(computing) an ordering or allocating of a set of tasks

• Bulgarian: програма (bg) f (programa)
• Czech: fronta (cs) f
• Maori: hōtaka
• Tibetan: བྱ་རིམ (bya rim), ལས་འཆར (las 'char)

Verb

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

Derived terms

• misschedule
• overschedule
• preschedule
• reschedule
• scheduler
• underschedule
• unschedule
• unscheduled

 

Translations

to create a schedule

• Bulgarian: правя списък (pravja spisǎk)
• Czech: naplánovat pf, plánovat (cs) impf
• Finnish: aikatauluttaa
• French: planifier (fr), ordonnancer (fr)
• Galician: adiar (gl), planificar
• German: planen (de)
• Indonesian: menjadwalkan (id)
• Maori: whakahōtaka
• Norman: chéduler
• Persian: زمانبندی کردن‎ (zamânbandi kardan)
• Polish: układać harmonogram impf
• Portuguese: agendar (pt)
• Romanian: planifica (ro)
• Russian: плани́ровать (ru) (planírovatʹ)
• Swedish: schemalägga (sv)
• Tibetan: འཆར་གཞི་བཟོ ('char gzhi bzo), འཆར་གཞི་འདིང ('char gzhi 'ding)

to plan an activity at a specific date or time

• Bulgarian: планирам (bg) (planiram)
• Cherokee: ᏓᏒᏍᏗᎭ (dasvsdiha)
• Czech: naplánovat pf, zařadit (cs) pf
• French: prévoir (fr), programmer (fr)
• Galician: programar (gl), adiar (gl)
• German: planen (de), ansetzen (de), festsetzen (de)
• Greek: προγραμματίζω (el) (programmatízo)
• Hungarian: ütemez, beütemez, betervez (hu)
• Indonesian: menjadwalkan (id)
• Norman: chéduler
• Polish: zaprogramować pf, zaplanować (pl) pf
• Russian: плани́ровать (ru) (planírovatʹ)
• Spanish: programar (es), adiar (es), agendar (es) (Latin America)
• Swedish: inplanera
• Tibetan: དུས་བཀག་བྱེད (dus bkag byed), དུས་ཚོད་གཏན་འཁེལ (dus tshod gtan 'khel)

References

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

Further reading

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