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Timer vs Calendar - What's the difference?

timer | calendar |

As nouns the difference between timer and calendar

is that timer is someone or something which times while 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.

timer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something which times.
  • A device used to measure amounts of time.
  • Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time.

    • Derived terms

    * egg timer, egg-timer

    See also

    * programmable

    Anagrams

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    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

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