dedicate vs schedule

dedicate

verb
  • To commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action 

  • To open (a building, for example) to public use. 

  • To set apart for a special use 

  • To set apart for a deity or for religious purposes; consecrate. 

  • To address or inscribe (a literary work, for example) to another as a mark of respect or affection. 

  • To show to the public for the first time 

noun
  • One who dedicates themself, or who is dedicated, to the service of some leader, religion, etc. 

schedule

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

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

  • 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 dedicate and schedule occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )