sched

• (chiefly law) sched.

• IPA^(key): /skɛd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒ
• Hyphenation: sched

sched (plural scheds)

1. (colloquial) 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.

   • 2001, Nick Barlay, Hooky Gear, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 13:

     I dial from Highgate Hill an imagine him sittin in his grubby office in an industrial depot wedge between Beckton an Creekmouth. Left of him he got his haulage scheds clip up on the wall.

   • 2009, Tera Lynn Childs, Goddess Boot Camp, New York, N.Y.: Speak, →ISBN, page 251:

     PrincessCesca: my sched is pretty busy

   • 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.

• resched

• “sched, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “sched n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

• schade, schedde, schede, schode, schood, sheed, shod, shode
• schad, shæd (Early Middle English)

A conflation of Old English sċēada and ġesċēad; compare scheden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛːd(ə)/, /ˈʃɔːd(ə)/

sched (plural schedes)

1. A parting of the hair.
2. (chiefly Early Middle English) Distinction, difference.
3. (Early Middle English) Judgement, discernment.

• English: shed (dialectal shode)
• Scots: shed

• “shēd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈsxɛt/

sched m inan

1. (Far Masovian) Synonym of zebranie

   Idziem do gminy na sched. ― We are going to the gmina for the gathering.

• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “sched”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 121