different between schedule vs inventory

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)

English

Etymology

From Middle English inventorie, from Old French inventoire (whence French inventaire), from Late Latin inventarium, from Latin invenire (“to find out”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.v?n.t?i/, /?n?v?n.t?.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.v?n?t?.?i/

Noun

inventory (plural inventories)

1. (operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.

   Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.

2. (operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.

   The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.

3. (operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.

   This month's inventory took nearly three days.

4. (role-playing games) A space containing the items available to a character for immediate use.

   You can't get through the underground tunnel if there are more than three items in your inventory.

5. (linguistics, especially phonology) The total set of a (specified) linguistic feature (within a language etc.)

   Germanic languages have a marked tendency towards large vocalic inventories.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:list

Related terms

• invent
• invented
• inventive
• invention
• inventor
• reinvent

Translations

Verb

inventory (third-person singular simple present inventories, present participle inventorying, simple past and past participle inventoried)

1. (transitive, operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

   The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.

Synonyms

• index
• inventorize
• take inventory
• take stock

Translations

Further reading

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