Scheduler vs. Dispatcher — What's the Difference?

A list of times of departures and arrivals; a timetable

A dispatcher is a communications worker who receives and transmits information to coordinate operations of other personnel and vehicles carrying out a service. A number of organizations, including police and fire departments, emergency medical services, motorcycle couriers, taxicab providers, trucking companies, railroads, and public utility companies, use dispatchers to relay information, direct personnel, and coordinate their operations.

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

One that dispatches

A printed or written list of items in tabular form

A person who sends out trains, buses, trucks, or cars according to a schedule.

A program of events or appointments expected in a given time

A person who sends out police cars, ambulances, taxis, or other vehicles in response to reported emergencies or requests for service.

A student's program of classes.

(Computers) A routine that controls the order in which input and output devices obtain access to the processing system.

A supplemental statement of details appended to a document.

Agent noun of dispatch; one who dispatches.

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

In a transportation organization, a person who controls the movements of vehicles.

One of the ranks or classes in such a list.

(computing) A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled.

To enter on a schedule

Any die used for cheating, whether fraudulently weighted or bearing duplicate numbers.

To make up a schedule for

One who dispatches.

To plan or appoint for a certain time or date

The official who signals the beginning of a race or competition

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

Employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service

A person or device that determines a schedule, that determines the order that tasks are to be done.

(computer science) An operating system component responsible for allocating several resources, most commonly the use of processors by different concurrent processes or threads.

Computer hardware that arranges jobs to be done by the computer in an appropriate order