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▪ I. ˈtimeˌtable, time-table, n.
A tabular list or schedule of the times at which successive things are to be done or happen, or of the times occupied in the parts of some process.
spec. a. A printed table or book of tables showing the times of arrival and departure of railway trains at and from the stations; also a similar table of times of arrival and departure of passenger boats or other public conveyances. b. A chart used in railway traffic offices, showing by means of cross lines, in one direction representing hours and minutes and in the other miles, the position of the various trains at any given moment (Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1888). c. A time-sheet on which a record is kept of the time worked by each employee. d. A table showing how the time of a school or other educational institution, for any day, or for a week, is allotted to the various classes and subjects. e. Mus. A table of notes showing their relative time-value.
1820Edin. Monthly Rev. Jan. 15 One of the most striking epochs in music, as we conceive, was that of the invention of the time-table. 1838Osborne Guide to Grand Junction or Birm'ham, Liverpool & Manch. Rail., On and after Wednesday May 23rd... Time Table shewing the Hours [etc.]. 1838Cornish's Grand Junction [etc.] Railway Companion, ed. 3, Time Table, shewing the hour of each Train [etc.] after 18th June 1838. 1839(title) Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables..10th Mo. 19th. 1844J. Allen Rept. Schools S. Distr. in Min. Comm. of Council on Education II. 91 For the morning's work, I have sometimes suggested the following time-table. 1844F. C. Cook Rept. Schools E. Distr. ibid. 178 The time-table should contain an exact account [etc.]. 1856F. E. Paget Owlet Owlst. 194 The time-table of that man's life was a curiosity in its way. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Time-table, a register of the time of high-water, and of the departure of steam boats, railway trains, etc.; a check upon the period of labour of workmen. 1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 98 The present time-table..of the lay public schools of Paris. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xxviii, He walked straight back to the hotel, where he called for a time-table. An express for London left Wildernsea at a quarter-past one. 18..Hullah in Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms (1875) s.v. Nomenclature, The Germans call these notes..the whole note, the half note, the quarter note, and so on. These appellations..form of themselves a time-table. 1889W. S. Rockstro in Grove Dict. Mus. s.v., The earliest known indication of a Time Table is to be found in the well-known work on Cantus mensurabilis, written by Franco of Cologne about the middle of the 11th century... The modern Time Table, denoting the proportionate value of all these notes, is too well known in our schoolrooms to need a word of description here. 1889G. Findlay Eng. Railway 8 It was not until after some time..that the time-table became a recognised institution. 1907Westm. Gaz. 7 May 2/2 This is the first time that a time-table has been arranged in advance for a whole [parliamentary] Bill, but it seems to us that the procedure was justified.
2. timetable motion = guillotine motion s.v. guillotine 4 a.
1976S. Lloyd Mr Speaker, Sir iii. 76 Peyton protested about the timetable motion, and asked why aid to Norton-Villiers had suddenly become so urgent. 1977Whitaker's Almanack 1978 349/2 A third timetable motion to limit debate on Lords' amendments to the Bills..was carried by 312–296.
▪ II. ˈtimeˌtable, time-table, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. To schedule, to plan or arrange according to a time-table, to include in a time-table.
1917‘Contact’ Airman's Outings v. 111 The leave train at Arrière was time-tabled for midnight. 1939G. Greene Confidential Agent i. i. 29 ‘My employers..wouldn't understand the delay.’ They would have time-tabled his movements. 1970Times 20 Oct. 4 Next year the school will admit 15 musically talented children who will be separately timetabled to give full scope for their abilities. 1974Times 3 June 7/5 Headmistresses..were adamant that non-examinable, creative subjects must be time⁓tabled in girls' schools.
Hence ˈtimeˌtabled ppl. a.; ˈtimeˌtabling vbl. n.
1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 47/1 Apart from complex timetabling, his work included liaison with police..and dovetailing turn-rounds. 1963Times 24 May p. xii/5 Regular timetabled lorry services between the depots and Acton. 1969Guardian 24 Oct. 9/2 Some will protest that the division of school time into 40-minute periods is essential for time-tabling. 1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xxv. 403, 93 per cent of classes..were taught English as a separately time-tabled subject. 1977Modern Railways Dec. 481/3 The obsolete layout at Liverpool Street is a major timetabling handicap particularly in that there has to be a comfortable margin at Platform 9 between the 00.30 Norwich departures and the 00.39 arrivals. 1978P. Bailey Leisure & Class in Victorian England vii. 167 Cutting down ad libs and encores..helped ensure the predictable time-tabling of acts. 1982Daily Tel. 12 Feb. 2/5 While many timetabled [rail] services will be axed, staff shortages mean there will be few cuts in services operated. |