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# timetable

«timetable» in Mova's school dictionary: **a list or chart showing what happens at what time, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a timetable, timetables); verb (timetable, timetables, timetabled, timetabling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A timetable is a list or chart showing what happens at what time, like lessons at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#m1)

2) A timetable is a list of times when buses, trains or planes leave and arrive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#m2)

3) To timetable something is to plan it for a certain time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

At school in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the timetable shows the lessons each day; in the USA people often say «schedule». In maths, reading bus and train timetables is a common skill: finding how long a journey takes by subtracting times. «Times tables» are different: they are multiplication facts. Phrases: «school timetable», «bus timetable», «on the timetable».

### examples

- Check the timetable to see when maths is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#x1)
- The bus timetable says the next bus is at 4:15. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#x2)
- PE is on the timetable on Wednesday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#x3)
- The train leaves at 9:20 and arrives at 10:05, so the trip takes 45 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#x4)
- Mum printed the holiday timetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#x5)
- Our timetable changes next term. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#x6)
- The swimming lesson was timetabled for Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#x7)
- The station has a big timetable on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/#x8)

### note

Countable: a timetable, timetables. Trap: «timetable» (a list of times) is not «times table» (like the 7 times table). American English often uses «schedule» instead. In maths, to find a journey length, subtract the leaving time from the arriving time, and remember an hour has 60 minutes, not 100.

### In the corpora

- [You check the timetable the night before, so you bring the right things and know where to be.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/253-getting-ready-and-the-school-day/10/)
- [Check the timetable the night before so you bring the right things and know where to be.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework/9/)
- [Learn your school timetable and check it the night before, so you bring the right things and know where to be.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones/8/)
- [Railways needed timetables, so from the 1840s British railways used London time everywhere, and towns gave up their own local clock times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/86-olympiad-cause-and-effect-chains/18/)
- [Some sad thoughts are true, like missing someone who has died; they are not traps, and grief has no timetable.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/32-olympiad-thinking-traps-and-what-helps-first/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «timetable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/timetable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.