schedule vs syllabus

schedule

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

syllabus

noun
  • A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture. 

  • The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case. 

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