Plan vs. Schedule

Plannoun

A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.

Plannoun

A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

Plannoun

A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.

Plannoun

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

Plannoun

A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an Internet plan.

Planverb

(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).

Planverb

(transitive) To create a plan for.

Planverb

(intransitive) To intend.

Planverb

See plan on.

Planverb

(intransitive) To make a plan.

Plannoun

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

Plannoun

A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.

Plannoun

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

Planverb

To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.

Planverb

To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.

Plannoun

a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;

Plannoun

an arrangement scheme;

Plannoun

scale drawing of a structure;

Planverb

have the will and intention to carry out some action;

Planverb

make plans for something;

Planverb

make or work out a plan for; devise;

Planverb

make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;

Plan

A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal.

Schedulenoun

(obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note.

Schedulenoun

(legal) 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.

Schedulenoun

One of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.

Schedulenoun

A timetable, or other time-based plan of events; a plan of what is to occur, and at what time.

Schedulenoun

(computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.

Scheduleverb

To create a time-schedule.

Scheduleverb

To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.

Scheduleverb

To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under the Mental Health Act.

Schedulenoun

A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.

Scheduleverb

To form into, or place in, a schedule.

Schedulenoun

a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

Schedulenoun

an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur

Scheduleverb

plan for an activity or event;

Scheduleverb

make a schedule; plan the time and place for events;

Schedulenoun

a plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times

Schedulenoun

one's day-to-day plans or timetable

Schedulenoun

a timetable

Schedulenoun

an appendix to a formal document or statute, especially as a list, table, or inventory

Schedulenoun

(with reference to the British system of income tax) any of the forms (named ‘A’, ‘B’, etc.) issued for completion and relating to the various classes into which taxable income is divided.

Scheduleverb

arrange or plan (an event) to take place at a particular time

Scheduleverb

make arrangements for (someone or something) to do something

Scheduleverb

include (a building or site) in a list for legal preservation or protection

Schedule

A schedule or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things are intended to take place. The process of creating a schedule — deciding how to order these tasks and how to commit resources between the variety of possible tasks — is called scheduling, and a person responsible for making a particular schedule may be called a scheduler.