schedule

Meanings

Noun

• A slip of paper; a short note.
• 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.
• A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
• 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.
• An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.

Verb

• To create a time-schedule.
• To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.
• To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
• To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the Mental Health Act.

Origin

• From Old French cedule (whence French cédule), from Late Latin schedula ("papyrus strip"), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη ("papyrus leaf"). cedula, and cedule.