task
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Northern French tasque, variant of Old French tasche, from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxāre (“censure, charge”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
task (plural tasks)
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- A difficult or tedious undertaking.
- An objective.
- (computing) A process or execution of a program.
Usage notes [edit]
- Adjectives often applied to "task": difficult, easy, simple, hard, tough, complex, not-so-easy, challenging, complicated, tricky, formidable, arduous, laborious, onerous, small, big, huge, enormous, tremendous, gigantic, mammoth, colossal, gargantuan, social, intellectual, theological, important, basic, trivial, unpleasant, demanding, pleasant, noble, painful, grim, responsible, rewarding, boring, ungrateful, delightful, glorious, agreeable.
Synonyms [edit]
- (piece of work):
- (difficult undertaking): undertaking
- (objective): objective, goal
- (process): process
Derived terms [edit]
Derived terms
Translations [edit]
piece of work done as part of one’s duties
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difficult or tedious undertaking
objective
process or execution of a program
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Verb [edit]
task (third-person singular simple present tasks, present participle tasking, simple past and past participle tasked)
- (transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.
- Dryden
- There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
- To charge, as with a fault.
- Beaumont and Flanders
- Too impudent to task me with those errors.
- Beaumont and Flanders
Translations [edit]
assign a task to
