schedule vs trace

schedule

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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. 

trace

noun
  • The ground plan of a work or works. 

  • The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane. 

  • The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix. 

  • An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive. 

  • A residue of some substance or material. 

  • An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package. 

  • A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider. 

  • A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. 

  • An act of tracing. 

  • A very small amount. 

  • One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug. 

  • An informal road or prominent path in an arid area. 

  • A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board. 

verb
  • To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step. 

  • To draw or sketch lightly or with care. 

  • To follow the trail of. 

  • To follow the history of. 

  • To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines. 

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