Schedule vs. Rota — What's the Difference?

A schedule or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things are intended to take place. The process of creating a schedule — deciding how to order these tasks and how to commit resources between the variety of possible tasks — is called scheduling, and a person responsible for making a particular schedule may be called a scheduler.

Chiefly British A roll call or roster of names.

A plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times

Chiefly British A round or rotation of duties.

An appendix to a formal document or statute, especially as a list, table, or inventory

Rota Roman Catholic Church A tribunal of prelates that serves as an ecclesiastical court.

(with reference to the British system of income tax) any of the forms (named ‘A’, ‘B’, etc.) issued for completion and relating to the various classes into which taxable income is divided.

(British) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

Arrange or plan (an event) to take place at a particular time

(musical instruments) A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.

Include (a building or site) in a list for legal preservation or protection

An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.

A list of times of departures and arrivals; a timetable

A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.

A plan for performing work or achieving an objective, specifying the order and allotted time for each part

A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; - written also rotta.

A printed or written list of items in tabular form

(Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts

A program of events or appointments expected in a given time

A roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties

A student's program of classes.

A supplemental statement of details appended to a document.

A federally regulated list of controlled substances, ranked in classes by potential for abuse.

One of the ranks or classes in such a list.

To enter on a schedule

To make up a schedule for

To plan or appoint for a certain time or date

To list or rank (a controlled substance) in a schedule.

(obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note.

(legal) 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.

One of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.

A serial record of items, systematically arranged.

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.

(computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.

To create a time-schedule.

To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.

To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.

To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.

(US) To classify as a controlled substance.

A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.

To form into, or place in, a schedule.

A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

An ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur

Plan for an activity or event;

Make a schedule; plan the time and place for events;