What's the difference between schedule and scheme?

Schedule


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To form into, or place in, a schedule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
  • (2) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
  • (3) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
  • (4) In contrast, the late component of the thrombopoietic response was demonstrated best on the most toxic drug schedules.
  • (5) While the mouse P388 cells were sensitive to OP in vitro, no effect was seen when OP was administered in vivo, even when schedules designed to take advantage of OP's time-dependent toxicity were used.
  • (6) Comparison of the seroconversion results showed the presence of protective antibodies against all the 3 types of polio in 100% of the children in both the groups, but there was no statistical difference in the geometric mean antibody titre in the two immunization schedules.
  • (7) This schedule appears workable in the community setting and yields response rates similar to those reported for 5-FU with high-dose leucovorin, but without the gastroin testinal toxicity profile of the latter combination.
  • (8) No significant quantitative differences in AFB1-DNA adduct formation between the dietary groups were observed following the first exposure to [3H]AFB1; however, total aflatoxin-DNA adduct levels in the choline-deficient animals were significantly increased during the multiple dose schedule.
  • (9) After 40 programmed minutes of acquisition and 12 min of maintenance, without notice, both schedules changed to extinction for 28 min.
  • (10) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
  • (11) Different possible combinations between neutrons and photons (boost, mixed schedule) are discussed.
  • (12) The interresponse-time reinforcement contingencies inherent in these schedules may actually mask the effects of overall reinforcement rate; thus differences in response rate as a function of reinforcement rate when interresponse-time reinforcement is eliminated may be underestimated.
  • (13) in rabbits according to schedules designed to yield approximately level activity in plasma for periods up to 5 hr.
  • (14) Squirrel monkeys trained to respond under a schedule in which each response postponed the delivery of electric shock developed a steady rate of responding.
  • (15) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
  • (16) It was found that DI rats responded less than LE rats on the progressive-ratio schedule and that DI rats suppressed drinking as much as LE rats at each concentration of quinine used on the drinking-suppression test.
  • (17) Two experiments reported the effects of prefeeding normal and septal rats prior to their daily sessions on a differential reinforcement of low rates (DRL-20) schedule.
  • (18) This dose and schedule of beta interferon did not result in significant anti-tumor effects in advanced NSCLC.
  • (19) Isoeffect distributions derived from time-dose fractionation values are examined, emphasizing alternate treatment schedules of the same plan.
  • (20) Our findings suggest that adoption of a sequential vaccination schedule (inactivated poliovirus vaccine followed by OPV) would be effective in decreasing the risk of VAPP while retaining the proven public health benefits of OPV.

Scheme


Definition:

  • (n.) A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
  • (n.) A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.
  • (n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.
  • (n.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
  • (v. t.) To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.
  • (v. i.) To form a scheme or schemes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
  • (2) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (3) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (4) In a control scheme for enzootic-pneumonia-free herds, 43 herds developed enzootic pneumonia, as judged by non-specific clinical and pathological criteria over 10 years.
  • (5) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
  • (6) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
  • (7) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
  • (8) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
  • (9) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
  • (10) Based on these findings and those described before, an overall degradation scheme is postulated.
  • (11) The contrast obtained is strongly dependent on the phase encoding scheme used.
  • (12) Theoretical 13C NMR spectra for all possible structures of some linear polysaccharides were calculated by using additive scheme of glycosidation effects.
  • (13) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
  • (14) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
  • (15) Trials of these therapeutic schemes promise a higher efficacy of the therapeutic measures for gastroesophageal reflux.
  • (16) Methods of analysis for some deterministic and stochastic variants of the integrate-to-threshold neural coding scheme are presented.
  • (17) That means investment in the transport schemes, the medical research and the communications networks that deliver the greatest economic benefit.
  • (18) A simplified scheme for the grading of trachoma and its complications has been developed by the W.H.O.
  • (19) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
  • (20) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.