different between diary vs schedule

English

Etymology

From Latin di?rium (“a daily allowance for soldiers, in Late Latin also ‘diary’”), neuter of *di?rius, from di?s (“a day”) (whence also journal). Cognate with Spanish diario (“daily; diary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da???i/, /?da??i/
• Rhymes: -a??ri, -a??i

Noun

diary (plural diaries)

1. A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
2. (Britain, Canada) A personal organizer or appointment diary.

Synonyms

• daybook
• journal

Coordinate terms

• calendar
• daybook
• chronicle
• log

Derived terms

• diarism
• diarist

Related terms

• diurnal
• journal

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (??yr?)

Translations

Adjective

diary (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Lasting for one day.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, a letter to the Lord Chancellor, touching the History of Britain

     the offer of a usurpation, though it were but as a diary ague

Verb

diary (third-person singular simple present diaries, present participle diarying, simple past and past participle diaried)

1. (intransitive) To keep a diary or journal.
   • 2015, Hugh O'Donovan, Mindful Walking

     As part of her mindful movement practise, diarying is important to Sarah. 'It gives me a chance to see what is going on, to reflect on my experience.'

Further reading

• diary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• diary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• diary at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• dairy, yaird

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)