sched
See also: sched.
English
Alternative forms
- (chiefly law) sched.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skɛd͡ʒ/
- Rhymes: -ɛdʒ
- Hyphenation: sched
Noun
sched (plural scheds)
- (slang) Clipping of schedule.
- 1958, Randolph Stow, To the Islands, New York, N.Y.: Taplinger Publishing Company, published 1982, →ISBN, page 51:
- 'I took your telegram over there to send to the doctor, but it was too late for the sched. and the old man wasn't there. I felt the wireless and it was cold. I don't think he listened in.'
- 1963, Lesley Diack, Labrador Nurse, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 91:
- In cases of extreme urgency, St. Anthony might be able to send one of the Mission boats, and, of course, there was the radio-telephone by which we kept contact, and there was always a daily "sched" at twelve noon.
- 2010, Pam Pastor, Paper Cuts, Mandaluyong, Philippines: Anvil Publishing, →ISBN:
- "Pam, what time's your flight?" / "10:30 a.m.," I answered, looking up from the beer I was chugging down. "I don't know why my sched says I need to leave the hotel by 6:45."
- 2015 February 15, “The Wednesday Incident”, in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 2, episode 16, spoken by Gina Linetti (Chelsea Peretti):
- Well, according to his sched, his next stop was his weekly painting class.
- 2017 February 18, Nicholas Schmidle, “Michael Flynn, General Chaos”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-12:
- After the election, [Michael] Flynn spent his days at Trump Tower, down the hall from [Steve] Bannon and Reince Priebus. "My sched is so tight, literally from sunrise to well past sunset," Flynn wrote me, in a text message. He was "consumed with reading."
- 2018, Tami Charles, Daphne Definitely Doesn't Do Fashion, North Mankato, M.N.: Stone Arch Books, published 2019, →ISBN, page 29:
- "I think I can fit it in my sched." I shorten the word because I hear the kids doing that all the time around here.
- 2021 June 29, Mark Aston; Stuart Tootal, SAS: Sea King Down, London: Penguin UK, →ISBN:
- The fact that we weren't picking anything up during the scheds was beginning to concern me. If we couldn't get comms, we would have to move again.
- 2022 November 17, Jake Register, “Your Sagittarius Season Horoscope”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-22:
- Keep in mind that it's easiest to create this style on damp hair, so if you shower before bed, this technique will be right in line with your sched.
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Related terms
References
- “sched, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- Jonathon Green (2023), “sched n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
Middle English
Etymology
A conflation of Old English sċēada and ġesċēad; compare scheden.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɛːd(ə)/, /ˈʃɔːd(ə)/
Noun
sched (plural schedes)
- A parting of the hair.
- (chiefly Early Middle English) Distinction, difference.
- (Early Middle English) Judgement, discernment.
References
- “shēd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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