schedule vs while

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. 

while

verb
  • To pass (time) idly. 

  • To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. 

conj
  • As long as. 

  • Until. 

  • During the same time that. 

  • Used to denote an individual experiencing racial profiling when performing a seemingly benign activity. 

  • Although. 

prep
  • Until. 

noun
  • an uncertain long period of time 

  • an uncertain short moment 

  • An uncertain duration of time, a period of time. 

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