different between horary vs schedule

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin h?r?rius, from h?ra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?????i/

Adjective

horary (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an hour or hours.
2. Occurring every hour; hourly.
3. (obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
4. (astrology, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 276:

     But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.

   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 295:

     This aspect of astrology impinged on medicine too, since an horary question could be a request for diagnosis, in which case the doctor might answer it by inspecting not just the arrangement of the heavens but also a sample of the patient's urine, bearing in mind when it was passed or when it was brought to him.

Translations

Noun

horary (plural horaries)

1. (rare, ecclesiastical) A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
2. A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
3. A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “horary”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

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)