different between daybook vs schedule

English

Etymology

From day +? book. Cognate with Dutch dagboek (“diary, journal, logbook”), German Tagebuch (“diary, journal, daybook”), Danish dagbog (“diary”), Swedish dagbok (“diary, logbook, journal, daybook”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de??b?k/

Noun

daybook (plural daybooks)

1. A daily chronicle; a diary.
   • 2001, Vicki Spandel, Ruth G. Nathan, Laura Robb, Daybook of critical reading and writing:

     Why is it called a Daybook? A Daybook traditionally is "a book in which daily transactions are recorded," but nowadays it is being used to mean "a journal."
2. (bookkeeping) An accounting journal.
3. (nautical) A logbook.

Synonyms

• (daily chronicle): diary, journal
• (bookkeeping): book of original entry, blotter (securities industry)

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French cedule (whence French cédule), from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhéd?, “papyrus leaf”). Doublet of cedula and cedule.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???dju?l/, /???d?u?l/, /?sk?dju?l/, /?sk?d?u?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?d??l/, /?sk?d??l/, /?sk?d?u?l/, /?sk?d?ul/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /???dju?l/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?sk?d?u(?)l/, /?sk?d?u?l/, /???d?u(?)l/, /???d?u?l/

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.]
   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.]

   Synonyms: timeline, timetable

5. (computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources. [from 20th c.]

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: eskedyul
• ? Indonesian: skedul
• ? Korean: ??? (seukejul)

Translations

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.

3. (Australia, medicine) To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the Mental Health Act.

   Synonym: (UK) section

Translations

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)