What's the difference between schedule and slot?

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.

Slot


Definition:

  • (n.) A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
  • (n.) A bolt or bar for fastening a door.
  • (n.) A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; esp., one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
  • (v. t.) To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door.
  • (n.) The track of a deer; hence, a track of any kind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Gone Girl picked for opening slot at New York film festival • We predict how Venice, Toronto and Telluride will split the 2014 world premieres
  • (2) When Question Time was moved to an earlier 9pm slot in May during the MPs' expenses scandal, a panel including Martin Bell, Ben Bradshaw and William Hague had 3.7 million viewers and a 17% share.
  • (3) McCall and her ad director, Stuart Taylor, have also managed to offer 'page dominance' to all but the smallest potential advertisers, meaning that big ads will not be diluted down by having smaller slots alongside them.
  • (4) DNA is isolated from synchronized populations of G1 and S phase cells, it is slot-blotted at the same DNA concentration(s) for each population, and it is hybridized with 32P-labeled DNA probes that are specific to the regions of interest.
  • (5) The final episode of I Own Britain's Best Home drew 400,000 and 2% for Five in the same time slot.
  • (6) Experiments were performed to measure velocities in front of six slot hoods.
  • (7) The issue was first raised by BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow and brought to the attention of the then BBC Vision director Jana Bennett – number two to BBC director general Mark Thompson – after the sitcom, which was planned for a post-9pm watershed slot, was moved to pre-watershed.
  • (8) Leroy Sané, a substitute, slotted in seamlessly on his debut.
  • (9) Standard gels, 200 mm wide with 20 sample slots have also been used.
  • (10) Findley darts round him and slots him beneath the advancing Ricketts.
  • (11) 27 August, 8pm Will Self The nearest the book festival circuit has to a rock star has three slots.
  • (12) The gastric factors controlling abundance of mRNA encoding the important neuropeptide, gastrin releasing peptide (GRP) in rat stomach, were examined by Northern and slot blot analysis.
  • (13) A complete 0.018-inch slot straight-wire appliance was used to align the teeth, close lower spaces, and detail the occlusion.
  • (14) It seemed that a gust of wind had dislodged part of the screen’s moorings leaving the visiting Leicester party, who had to negotiate a new take-off slot for their post-match flight back to East Midlands, looking unimpressed when they ventured to the touchline.
  • (15) FISH results on primary tumors were concordant with slot blot results on amplification and with immunohistochemical detection of overexpression.
  • (16) Eggs of southern corn rootworm (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber) were subjected to electromagnetic energy at 2.45 GHz in slotted waveguide applicators to determine ovicidal threshold levels.
  • (17) When incubated with alpha-32P-labeled ribonucleoside triphosphates in vitro, nuclei isolated from haploid or diploid cells transcribed rRNA, tRNA, and mRNAs in a strand-specific manner, as shown by slot blot hybridization of the in vitro synthesized RNA to cloned genes encoding 5.8S, 18S and 28S rRNAs, tRNATyr, and GAL7, URA3, TY1 and HIS3 mRNAs.
  • (18) Herein, we describe the procedures for preparation and labeling of DNA probes and the principles that regulate dot, slot and Southern blot hybridization.
  • (19) It was considerably — and predictably — up on the audience who used to watch Norton in his old 10pm slot on BBC2, when it was typically watched by between 1 million and 1.5 million viewers.
  • (20) BBC1 slipped to second place in the slot behind a repeat of Martin Clunes drama Doc Martin, with 3.6 million viewers and an 18% share between 9pm and 11pm.