different between schedule vs roaster

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 roster, roostare, equivalent to roast +? -er. Same formation as roster, although the words have very different meanings.

Pronunciation

Noun

roaster (plural roasters)

1. One who roasts food.
   • 2011, Ruth A. Johnston, All Things Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World

     […] they [professional cooks] had as many as 25 helpers, such as saucerers, larders, roasters, pottagers, bakers, spicers, and fruiterers, not to mention spit turners and scullions.

2. (cooking) A kitchen utensil used for roasting.

   Synonyms: roasting tin, roasting pan

3. A chicken, pig, etc. suitable for roasting.
4. A furnace used in making ball soda.
5. One who roasts or banters, especially as a comedy routine.
6. (planetology, informal) A hot Jupiter.
7. (Scotland, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; somebody making a fool of themselves.

Anagrams

• Serrato, Traores, reroast, roarest