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What is the difference between calendar and diary?

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Diary is a coordinate term of calendar.



As nouns the difference between calendar and diary

is that calendar is any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years while diary is a daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.

As a verb calendar

is to set a date for a proceeding in court, usually done by a judge at a calendar call.

As an adjective diary is

lasting for one day.

calendar

English

(wikipedia calendar)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
  • A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
  • A list of planned events.
  • 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.

    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)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    diary

    English

    (Personal journal)

    Noun

    (diaries)
  • A daily log of experiences, especially those of the writer.
  • The method or media used to keep such experiences.
    • They kept separate diaries'''. His was on paper and her '''diary was on her computer's hard drive.
  • (British, Canada) A calendar or appointment book.

    • Synonyms

    * daybook * journal

    Derived terms

    * diarist

    Related terms

    * diurnal * journal

    Coordinate terms

    * calendar * daybook * chronicle * log

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Lasting for one day.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The offer of a usurpation, though it was but as a diary ague.

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * dairy