Task
[tɑːsk] or [tæsk]
Definition
(verb.) assign a task to; 'I tasked him with looking after the children'.
Checker: Wilbur--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
(v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
(v. t.) To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
(v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
(v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Inputed by Leslie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Work, labor, toil, drudgery.[2]. Employment, business, undertaking, enterprise.[3]. Lesson, exercise.
v. a. [1]. Impose a task on.[2]. Burden, oppress, tax.
Typed by Garrett
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Work, function, labor, job, operation, business, undertaking, drudgery, toil,lesson
ANT:Relaxation, leisure, amusement, hobby
Typist: Lucinda
Definition
n. a set amount of work esp. of study given by another: work: drudgery.—v.t. to impose a task on: to burden with severe work.—ns. Task′er one who imposes a task or who performs it; Task′ing task-work; Task′master a master who imposes a task: an overseer:—fem. Task′mistress; Task′work work done as a task or by the job.—Take to task to reprove.
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Examples
- Erringly and strangely she began the task of self-examination with self-condemnation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Tom silently resumed his task; but the woman, before at the last point of exhaustion, fainted. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But the trouble with them is that the psychology is weak and uninformed, distorted by moral enthusiasms, and put out without any particular reference to the task of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This latter task was becoming more and more difficult, for the blacks had taken to hiding their supply away at night in granaries and living huts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- As it has a double task to perform, it must be endowed with double force and energy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It would have been an easier task a week ago, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But genuine politics is not an inhuman task. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The other teachers, poor things, were generally themselves too much dejected to attempt the task of cheering others. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then it will be our duty to select, if we can, natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city? Plato. The Republic.
- The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Plans which had lately appeared to her in the guise of tasks, now appeared like pleasures. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- More than any other generalization it illuminates the currents of our national life and explains the altering tasks of statesmanship. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We almost let the dead bury their dead today while the living drive forward their tasks, achieving as much in a year as the old ages did in twenty. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A wall is a wall: the presence of it will not do the work of civilization--the absence of it does not absolve anyone from the tasks of social life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I had long tasks every day to do with Mr. Mell; but I did them, there being no Mr. and Miss Murdstone here, and got through them without disgrace. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Born in partiality, in order to accomplish its tasks it must achieve a certain detached impartiality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But one of the hardest domestic tasks is that of keeping the house clean. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is impossible that it should have any success in these tasks without educational equivalents as to what to do and what not to do. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This used to be one of the most difficult tasks in hand-work, but is done rapidly and exactly by this machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Tasked one of the mechanics. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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