Athletics vs Calendar - What's the difference?
athletics | calendar |
As a proper noun athletics is (baseball) the team , previously kansas city athletics and philadelphia athletics. As a noun calendar is any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years. As a verb calendar is (legal) to set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
athletics English
Noun
(head)
Physical activities such as sports and games requiring stamina, fitness and skill.
A group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
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calendar Noun
( en noun)
Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
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A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
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A list of planned events.
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An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.
* (Francis Bacon)
- Shepherds of people had need know the calendars of tempests of state.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20, url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W
, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
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Usage notes
* Do not confuse calendar' with ' calender .
Synonyms
* (list of planned events) agenda, schedule, docket
Derived terms
* calendar day
* calendric
* calendrical
* Chinese calendar
* French Republican Calendar
* Gregorian calendar
* Hebrew calendar
* Jewish calendar
* Julian calendar
* lunar calendar
* lunisolar calendar
* solar calendar
* desktop calendar
Verb
( en verb)
(legal) To set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.
- The judge agreed to calendar''' a hearing for pretrial motions for the week of May 15, but did not agree to '''calendar the trial itself on a specific date.
To enter or write in a calendar; to register.
- (Waterhouse)
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