schedule vs work

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. 

work

noun
  • effort expended on a particular task. 

  • The staging of events to appear as real. 

  • The result of a particular manner of production. 

  • Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result. 

  • The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.) 

  • Ore before it is dressed. 

  • A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move. 

  • Something produced using the specified material or tool. 

  • One's employer. 

  • Something on which effort is expended. 

  • The place where one is employed. 

  • A fortification. 

  • A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process. 

  • A literary, artistic, or intellectual production. 

  • labour, occupation, job. 

verb
  • To embroider with thread. 

  • To cause to ferment. 

  • To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for. 

  • To shape, form, or improve a material. 

  • Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients. 

  • To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence. 

  • To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage. 

  • Followed by as. Said of one's job title 

  • To behave in a certain way when handled 

  • To exhaust, by working. 

  • Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business). 

  • To ferment. 

  • To set into action. 

  • Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs. 

  • To use or manipulate to one’s advantage. 

  • To provoke or excite; to influence. 

  • To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality. 

  • To cause to work. 

  • To effect by gradual degrees; 

  • To influence. 

  • To move in an agitated manner. 

  • To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad). 

  • To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. 

  • To effect by gradual degrees. 

  • To operate in or through; as, to work the phones. 

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