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Timetable vs Horary - What's the difference?

timetable | horary |

As nouns the difference between timetable and horary

is that timetable is a structured schedule of events with the times at which they occur, especially times of arrivals and departures while horary is a book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.

As a verb timetable

is to arrange a specific time for (an event, a class, etc).

As an adjective horary is

pertaining to an hour or hours.

timetable

English

Alternative forms

* time table * time-table

Noun

(wikipedia timetable) (en noun)
  • a structured schedule of events with the times at which they occur, especially times of arrivals and departures
    • The timetable has been changed several times since it was first announced.

    Synonyms

    * (structured schedule of events with the times at which they occur ): schedule, timeline

    Derived terms

    * timetable motion * timetable and train order

    Verb

    (timetabl)
  • To arrange a specific time for (an event, a class, etc).
    • I've timetabled the meeting for Monday afternoon.

    Synonyms

    * (insert (an event, etc) into a timetable ): schedule

    Derived terms

    * timetabled * timetabling

    horary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to an hour or hours.
    • (Spectator)
  • Occurring every hour; hourly.
  • (obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • horary , or soon decaying, fruits of summer
  • (astrology, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 276:
    • But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.
  • * 2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 295:
    • This aspect of astrology impinged on medicine too, since an horary question could be a request for diagnosis, in which case the doctor might answer it by inspecting not just the arrangement of the heavens but also a sample of the patient's urine, bearing in mind when it was passed or when it was brought to him.

    Noun

    (horaries)
  • (rare, ecclesiastical) A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
  • A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
  • A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.

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