Thesaurus: docket

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1. n. A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
2. n. A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.
3. n. An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.
4. n. A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
5. n. A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
6. v. t. To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers.
7. v. t. To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
8. v. t. To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
9. v. t. To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.
10. n. (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities
11. n. a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
12. v. place on the docket for legal action