bill vs schedule

bill

noun
  • A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods 

  • A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note. 

  • The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal. 

  • Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes. 

  • A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.) 

  • A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.) 

  • The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak). 

  • A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. 

  • The bell, or boom, of the bittern. 

  • A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice. 

  • Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff. 

  • A piece of paper money; a banknote. 

  • One hundred dollars. 

  • A pickaxe, or mattock. 

  • A beak-like projection, especially a promontory. 

  • A set of items presented together. 

  • Somebody armed with a bill; a billman. 

  • A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law. 

verb
  • To dig, chop, etc., with a bill. 

  • To advertise by a bill or public notice. 

  • To charge; to send a bill to. 

  • to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness 

schedule

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. 

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. 

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