TIMETABLE


Meaning of TIMETABLE in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bus timetable

The bus timetable changes on January 31st.

draw up a timetable/schedule

They haven’t yet drawn up a timetable for the elections.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

new

They will have to work to the new timetables .

Mr Ajello's officials, who take up five floors of Maputo's Rovuma Hotel, are working on a new timetable .

A completely new Midland timetable was introduced in two stages in October 1982 and May 1983.

Given the new timetable , it still say samples should be more available than they are.

The new timetables will relate to the overall periods up to setting down for trial.

strict

Mrs Jackie Bowshell organised the event and cars were brought in by regular customers to a strict timetable .

From Monday to Thursday debates are held according to a ritual that is governed by the translators' strict and legitimate timetables .

I am trying to keep to a very strict timetable .

We don't have strict timetables for meals.

In order to allow all parties reasonable access to this documentation we will ask you to adhere to a strict timetable .

The main force came ashore the next night and followed a strict timetable .

A strict timetable was to be adhered to whereby reorganization was to be completed by the end of 1974.

tight

All parties in Crown Court matters should be subject to tight timetables and wasted costs orders, including judges and listing officers.

Installing new unproven software posed unacceptable risks to Pearl's tight implementation timetable .

It is important to remember that there is a tight timetable for the introduction of the new tax.

■ NOUN

bus

Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma.

Much of the information they sent back came from the newspapers and, in one case, the Miami bus timetable .

We have no need to theorise about bus timetables in order to catch a bus into town.

Please note that these itineraries are suggestions only, and are subject to bus timetables and accommodation availability.

election

These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable .

The decision to foreshorten the leadership election timetable proved to be a serious error.

motion

I spoke about the much wider use of timetable motions .

Even so, there is a great deal to be said against timetable motions .

I did not support the timetable motion and believe that my decision was right.

Let me now spell out why the timetable motion is necessary.

Our amendments do not get proper consideration on Report or in Committee if there is a timetable motion .

I understand that a timetable motion is to be introduced on Second Reading - a procedure which I have not experienced.

I thought he looked weary as he presented the timetable motion .

I am delighted to see that the Government are willing to introduce a timetable motion at the start of Second Reading.

railway

Reliably tied-in with the railway timetable are the yellow post-buses which take mail and people to every village.

A railway timetable provides a good and simple example of a prudential practice.

So tennis fans can, for the moment, pout away their railway timetables .

Then he looked in a railway timetable for a town that he did not know.

The delays caused by such action can have considerable impact on services because the integrated railway timetable is very susceptible to disruption.

We know that a war can start over a telegram, a railway timetable or the ear of some one called Jenkins.

school

Storytime is a regular feature in the school timetable , and stories about the past can slot naturally into this framework.

train

Use a bus or train timetable .

The fate map should be regarded rather like a train timetable - it tells you only what will normally happen.

■ VERB

agree

These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable .

It simply agreed a timetable for producing a single currency by, at the latest, 1999 - with or without Britain.

draw

It was understood that the conference would also draw up a timetable for elections.

Such a conference would, among other things, debate the proposed legislation, and draw up a timetable for elections.

give

The leaflets give details of timetables for the Middlesbrough to Saltburn line as well as specials to key towns in the North-East.

The company declined to give a timetable for the sale.

Further Orders will be required to give the timetable legal effect.

On returning, he very politely gives me a timetable .

Endill was given a timetable of his lessons.

This is the boast of the excellent leaflet which is produced to give prospective visitors timetable information and details of other facilities.

He was given a flexible timetable which, in terms of classes, could be built up as seemed appropriate.

keep

I am sure that many cases will be able to keep to that timetable , but I see difficulties in many others.

Be realistic from the outset, so that you don't become dismayed by your inability to keep to your own timetable .

Try to keep to a regular timetable of waking and sleeping.

The Community has kept apace with the timetable set for adoption of the legislation by the end of 1992.

set

This paper sets out the overall timetable for the information of all staff.

It has since set back the timetable for the expressway, proposed for just south of Miramar Road.

We have set out the timetable .

Tabular setting text set in columns such as timetables .

There is clearly no sense in setting an impossibly short timetable in order to impress the client.

The Government are not prepared to set out any timetable for reaching that limit.

The court should take account of the fact that it could minimize the delay by setting a timetable for the action.

About eighteen inches is the optimum distance between eye and page. Set yourself a personal timetable for study.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

heavy schedule/timetable/day etc

But Joe was concerned about the heavy schedule he had to keep in order to maintain that income.

I understand the importance of the statement, but we have a heavy day ahead of us.

Quite apart from the vines, I have a heavy day ahead of me - a lot of serious talking to do.

The distant baying of a hound tugged at the heavy day.

We have a very heavy day ahead of us.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Have you got the new bus timetable for this year?

He gave no indication of a timetable for the approval of the changes.

Party leaders met to discuss a new constitution and an electoral timetable .

Teachers will be giving out copies of the new timetable in the first class today.

The timetable said there was another train at 6.15.

Their purpose would be to set a timetable for the conversion of British cars to low-octane fuel.

Train services shown in this timetable are subject to alteration or cancellation at short notice.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Amoco said that the effect on the commissioning timetable of the loss of the flotel had still to be assessed.

At the beginning of each year a timetable is prepared and each year group follows a clearly defined, predetermined curriculum.

From Monday to Thursday debates are held according to a ritual that is governed by the translators' strict and legitimate timetables.

I had responsibilities: timetables, deadlines.

It was understood that the conference would also draw up a timetable for elections.

Public hearing participation was clearly limited by the timetable and invitation list adopted by city staff.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

By 1800 wagon services were numerous enough in most parts of the country to be timetabled.

For example, disabled students can be timetabled into ground floor rooms.

His afternoons were much less predictable, and that was also when the bulk of Karen's contact hours were timetabled.

The Centre should be timetabled for operational use by students and formally supervised by a designated member of staff.

The real initiative for timetabling Bills must come from Opposition parties.

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