apply vs schedule

apply

verb
  • To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group. 

  • To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative 

  • To address; to refer; generally used reflexively. 

  • To lay or place; to put (one thing to another) 

  • To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention 

  • To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position). 

  • To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case 

schedule

verb
  • To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something. 

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

  • To create a time-schedule. 

  • To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law. 

noun
  • A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract. 

  • A serial record of items, systematically arranged. 

  • One of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification. 

  • An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources. 

  • A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur. 

How often have the words apply and schedule occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )