单词 | timetable |
释义 | timetable (taɪmteɪbəl ) Word forms: timetables , timetabling , timetabled 1. countable noun A2 A timetable is a plan of the times when particular events are to take place. The timetable was hopelessly optimistic. Don't you realize we're working to a timetable? We have to have results. The two countries are to try to agree a timetable for formal talks. [+ for] Synonyms: schedule, programme, agenda, list 2. countable noun A2 In a school or college, a timetable is a list that shows the times in the week at which particular subjects are taught. You can also refer to the range of subjects that a student learns or the classes that a teacher teaches as their timetable. [British] Options are offered subject to staff availability and the constraints of the timetable. Members of the union will continue to teach their full timetables. 3. countable noun B1 A timetable is a list of the times when trains, boats, buses, or aeroplanes are supposed to arrive at or leave from a particular place. [mainly British] For a local bus timetable, contact Dyfed County Council. 4. verb [usually passive] B2 If something is timetabled, it is scheduled to happen or do something at a particular time. [mainly British] On both days, three very different trains will be timetabled. [be VERB-ed] Opie is timetabled to work a four-day week. [be VERB-ed to-infinitive] Synonyms: schedule, plan, arrange, organize timetabling uncountable noun B2 Timetabling is a nightmare for all schools. Image of timetable ![]() © Brendan Howard, Shutterstock Collocations: tight timetable This looks like an extraordinarily tight timetable, if not an impossible one. Times, Sunday Times Yet, in a sense, despite a seemingly tight timetable, he has a very straightforward task ahead of him. Times, Sunday Times For the best part of 12 months we worked flat out, often seven days a week, to comply with the tight timetable. Times, Sunday Times To slap a tight timetable on regulators already feeling under pressure was bound to rub them up the wrong way. Times, Sunday Times Insiders said the decision was logical given the tight timetable. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 时刻表 Japanese: 時刻表 |
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