Event vs Schedule - What's the difference?

event | schedule |

As nouns the difference between event and schedule

is that event is blowhole (of cetaceans) while schedule is (obsolete) a slip of paper; a short note.

As a verb schedule is

to create a time-.

event

English

(wikipedia event)

Noun

(en noun)

An occurrence; something that happens.

* Macaulay

the events of his early years

An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

*, II.3.3:

hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

* 1707 , , by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8

Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event .

* Young

dark doubts between the promise and event

In the event , he turned out to have what I needed anyway.

(physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.

(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.

(probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

X

is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be:

X = 1

X = 2

X \ge 5, X \not = 4,

and

X \isin \{1,3,5\}

(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

* Shakespeare

Leave we him to his events .

(lb) An episode of severe health conditions.

Derived terms

* blessed event * credit event * current events * doomsday event * eventful * event horizon * eventless * eventual * in the event * K-T extinction event * media event * quick time event * risk event * sentinel event * social event * speciation event * to be wise after the event

External links

* * 1000 English basic words

schedule

English

Noun

(en noun)

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

(legal) An annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.

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

(US) Each of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.

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

Synonyms

* timetable * timeline

Verb

(schedul)

To create a time-.

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

I'll schedule you for three-o'clock then.

The next elections are scheduled on the 20th of November.

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