The difference between Calendar and Schedule

When used as nouns, calendar means any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years, whereas schedule means a slip of paper.

When used as verbs, calendar means to set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call, whereas schedule means to create a time-schedule.


check bellow for the other definitions of Calendar and Schedule

  1. Calendar as a noun:

    Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.

    Examples:

    "The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars."

  2. Calendar as a noun:

    A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.

    Examples:

    "Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall."

  3. Calendar as a noun:

    A list of planned events.

    Examples:

    "The club has a busy calendar this year."

  4. Calendar as a noun:

    An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.

    Examples:

    "a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assemblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court"

  5. Calendar as a noun (US):

    An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)

  1. Calendar as a verb (legal):

    To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.

    Examples:

    "The judge agreed to calendar a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to calendar the trial itself on a specific date."

  2. Calendar as a verb:

    To enter or write in a calendar; to register.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Waterhouse"

  1. Schedule as a noun (obsolete):

    A slip of paper; a short note.

  2. Schedule as a noun (legal):

    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. One of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.

    Examples:

    "schedule of tribes"

  3. Schedule as a noun:

    A timetable, or other time-based plan of events; a plan of what is to occur, and at what time.

  4. Schedule as a noun (computer science):

    An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.

  1. Schedule as a verb:

    To create a time-schedule.

  2. Schedule as a verb:

    To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.

    Examples:

    "I'll schedule you for three-o'clock then."

    "The next elections are scheduled on the 20th of November."

  3. Schedule as a verb (Australia, medicine):

    To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under the Mental Health Act.

    Examples:

    "whether or not to schedule a patient"

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