Timeline for Is there a word, other than "event," for a due date you put in your calendar?
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| Jun 2, 2021 at 1:04 | comment | added | Jim | You could try deadline. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 16:23 | comment | added | jsw29 | In the context of calendar apps, event is technical term. There is probably no similar term in ordinary language, because, outside the apps, we don't need a hypernym for concerts, birthdays, due dates, etc. They don't have anything in common other than being something one may need to be reminded of. (English doesn't have gerundives; if it did, a gerundive of remind would be the right word.) | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 15:55 | history | edited | Ray Toal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2021 at 15:48 | comment | added | Ray Toal | Exactly @BoldBen! In conversation we just say the due date is in the calendar, but in an app there'd be different subtypes of "calendar items," such as appointments/concerts/meetings/competitions and "something due at this time." In conversation we use the subtype name, but I felt for an app there was a qualitative difference between the former four and the latter one, which might have in a calendar-item-type word. Maybe not. Perhaps CalendarItem is the supertype and TargetDate is the subtype, and the distinction between social "events" and target date items doesn't arise in conversation. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 12:09 | comment | added | BoldBen | Are you looking for a word you can use in normal conversation relating to any calendar, either electronic or physical; or are you wanting the app to give you different terms for different types of calendar entry? In the first case the term used by the app is irrelevant to normal conversation so you can say "I've put your birthday/ our Wedding/ Parents' Evening/ date the car tax runs out onto (or into) the calendar" With a paper calendar you just have an empty box and a pencil, with the app you go with whatever the developer called it | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 10:29 | comment | added | Stuart F | Perhaps you should follow the rules for single-word-requests and post an example sentence. | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 10:27 | comment | added | Stuart F | Due date and deadline are the phrases I'd associate with something being due. I don't understand why you're rejecting that - when you say Or is there a word in English that exactly describes the pseudo-event of the form "I just put this due date in my calendar so I get a reminder"? it sounds like you're looking for a word meaning "when a deadline is set" rather than "when a deadline expires" - is that right? | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 7:31 | comment | added | user405662 | Why would you need to describe a date, a number in fact, with a separate word when you could say "June 2 is the deadline to pay the electricity bill?" | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 7:03 | history | edited | Ray Toal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarify "due date"
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| Jun 1, 2021 at 6:54 | answer | added | Anton | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 1, 2021 at 6:33 | history | asked | Ray Toal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |