schedule

Meanings

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.
2. A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
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.
4. One of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
5. One of the nine schedules of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons. Identical to the American usage above.
6. An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
7. A slip of paper; a short note.

1. To create a time-schedule.
2. To plan (an activity or event) for a specific date or time.
3. To add (a name) to the list of those participating in an event; to reserve a place or time for.
4. To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.
5. To classify as a controlled substance.

1. Alternative letter-case form of schedule, commonly used in legislation and legal documents.

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.

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