fixture vs schedule

fixture

verb
  • To schedule (a match). 

  • To furnish with, as, or in a fixture. 

noun
  • A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry. 

  • A scheduled match. 

  • A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place. 

  • A lighting unit; a luminaire. 

  • Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing. 

  • A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests. 

schedule

verb
  • To create a time-schedule. 

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