Deadline vs Timescale - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between deadline and timescale

is that deadline is a date on or before which something must be completed while timescale is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

is to render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.

(wikipedia deadline)

(en noun)

A date on or before which something must be completed.

I must make this deadline or my boss will ''kill'' me!

(archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.

(archaic) A line that does not move. (rfex)

(archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.

(deadlin)

(military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.

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(en noun)