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noun
1.
a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
2.
a series of things to be done or of events to occur at or during a particular time or period: He always has a full schedule.
3.
a timetable.
4.
a written or printed statement of details, often in classified or tabular form, especially one forming an appendix or explanatory addition to another document.
5.
Obsolete. a written paper.
verb (used with object)
6.
to make a schedule of or enter in a schedule.
7.
to plan for a certain date: to schedule publication for June.
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Origin:
1350–1400; < Late Latin schedula, equivalent to Latin sched(a) leaf of paper + -ula -ule; replacing Middle English cedule, sedule < Middle French < Late Latin, as above
1350–1400; < Late Latin schedula, equivalent to Latin sched(a) leaf of paper + -ula -ule; replacing Middle English cedule, sedule < Middle French < Late Latin, as above
Related forms
sched·u·lar, adjective
sched·ul·er, noun
pre·sched·ule, verb (used with object), -uled, -ul·ing.
sub·sched·ule, noun
un·sched·uled, adjective
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Word Origin & History
schedule
1397, sedule, cedule "ticket, label, slip of paper with writing on it," from O.Fr. cedule, from L.L. schedula "strip of paper," dim. of L. schida "one of the strips forming a papyrus sheet," from Gk. skhida "splinter," From stem of skhizein "to cleave, split" (see shed (v.)
EXPANDand cf. schism). The notion is of slips of paper attached to a document as an appendix (a sense maintained in U.S. tax forms). The specific meaning "printed timetable" is first recorded 1863 in railway use (the verb in this sense is from 1862). Modern spelling is 15c., in imitation of L.; the modern British pronunciation ("shed-yul") is from Fr. influence, while the U.S. pronunciation ("sked-yul") is from the practice of Webster, and is based on the Greek original.
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