noun
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A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
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A difficult or tedious undertaking.
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An objective.
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A process or execution of a program.
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The user killed the frozen task.
verb
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To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
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On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
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To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
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To charge, as with a fault.
Examples of tasks in a Sentence
Many tasks in life have to be done.
These different tasks, which philosophy had to fulfil, mark pretty accurately the aims of Lotze's writings, and the order in which they were published.
On the 19th of February 1906 the parliament was dissolved, without writs being issued for a new election, a fact accepted by the country with an equanimity highly disconcerting The agreement with the crown which had made this course possible included the postponement of the military questions that had evoked the crisis, and the acceptance of the principle of Universal Suffrage by the Coalition leaders, who announced that their main tasks would be to repair the mischief wrought by the " unconstitutional " Fejervary cabinet, and then to introduce a measure of franchise reform so wide that it would be possible to ascertain the will of the whole people on the questions at issue between themselves and the crown.
It is evident how this initial position at once defined to him the tasks which philosophy had to perform.
Thankfully, Janet arrived to take up the inside tasks of Bird Song.
Mill complains that his father often required more than could be expected of him, but his tasks were not so severe as to prevent him from growing up a healthy and high-spirited boy, though he was not constitutionally robust, and his pursuits were so different from those of other boys of the same age.
The Cholos are never without it, and with it are able to perform incredible tasks with little food.
No dangers were too threatening for him to face, no obstacles too formidable,no tasks too laborious, no heights too steep. The love of power and the supporting courage were allied with a marked imperiousness.
At first, these tasks were made arduous by the lack of tools.
One of his first tasks was to send his treatise on the Subjection of Women (written 1861, published 1869, many editions) through the press.
Associating the nude solely with the performance of menial tasks, he deemed it worse than a solecism to transfer such subjects to his canvas, and thus a wide field of- motive was closed to him.
The State administration comprised all affairs having relation to rights, duties and interests " which are common to all territories"; all other administrative tasks were left to the territories.
If you have a to-do list, spend some time prioritizing your tasks.
Scarcely was the Society launched when its members dispersed in various directions to their new tasks.
The force was segregated in the Swin (Thames) and specially trained in all its various tasks.
They only become original and contemporary authorities towards the end of their appointed tasks, and the bulk of their work is borrowed from their predecessors.
Probably it would be truer to say that he riots in the pleasures of discussion, and in setting tasks to other irresponsible and ingenious spirits.
Each user, even a novice, is able to quickly design complex measurement tasks using the standard control command syntax.
It has been suggested that the fact of the conquest of the Amazons being assigned to the two famous heroes of Greek mythology, Heracles and Theseus - who in the tasks assigned to them were generally opposed to monsters and beings impossible in themselves, but possible as illustrations of permanent danger and damage, - shows that they were mythical illustrations of the dangers which beset the Greeks on the coasts of Asia Minor; rather perhaps, it may be intended to represent the conflict between the Greek culture of the colonies on the Euxine and the barbarism of the native inhabitants.
The association is ruled by a house-father (dornanyin or staryeshina) and a house-mother (domanyitsa), who assign to the members their respective tasks.
Mathematical analysis needed half a century of cultivation before it was fully available for the arduous tasks reserved for it.
James Bradley chose the most appropriate tasks, and executed them supremely well, with the indispensable aid of John Bradley.
His failure to fulfil the tasks imposed on him (especially that of the relief of Mainz) led to his being arrested, and he was guillotined (23rd June 1794) not long before the fall of Robespierre.
Quinn burst past us, anxious to perform what tasks were necessitated by the deadline that signaled the termination of his experiments.
The day was perfect for rolling the countryside and Dean was pleased his legs had a good memory of the long-absent tasks required of pedaling at seven thousand feet elevation.
It was the most mundane of tasks.
The list included many mundane, routine tasks.
Most hardware accelerators will directly render polygons to scenes therefore freeing up processor time for other tasks.
She was extremely remiss in performing the tasks.
Most hardware accelerators will directly render polygons to scenes freeing up processor time for other tasks.
Whilst engaged on operational tasks the plane cannot hover like a helicopter, it requires airspeed of about 50 mph to remain airborne.
It is equally applicable in an environment where there are no machines or process, just people carrying out assembly tasks or warehousing.
For example, a career as a visual artist usually involves being able to juggle a multitude of tasks.
The Army Groups or the units subordinate to them respectively assigned additional tasks to the Einsatz Groups and their subsections.
Include details of the tasks you will be wanting the au pair to complete.
In the long term expert systems promise to enable automation of more challenging tasks.
Farmers often balk at the extra labor cost of doing these extra tasks.
The Center staff are qualified instructors, but there are no domestic staff, and students do the tasks on a rota basis.
Main Tasks FAQs See the results of a batch queued analysis To which batch queue was the analysis sent?
This includes a wide range of tasks from hull blacking to replating a boat.
Now at Cowroast Phil has an engineer and a site maintenance man who also does boat blacking and other similar tasks.
My tasks involved lighting their enormous bonfire (complete with Guy, made by pupils of the Firs Lower School ).
In spring, our tasks include broadleaf planting and removing non-native trees.
The task of overthrowing capitalism is hard enough, without adding tasks like ' the perfection of the human spirit ' .
So great were their numbers that they quickly filled the immense underground cavern and forced the busy workmen to abandon their tasks.
The performance of patients with lesions to the prefrontal cerebral cortex on these tasks will be described.
Students have a Grammar Reference in the virtual classroom, which can help them to carry out these tasks.
Volunteer tasks which are specifically coastal, such as marram planting, are on the whole simple and undemanding and require little equipment.
By a strange coincidence, the GLA seems to be involved in all these tasks.
The squadron XO normally tasks a staff officer in the TOC to perform the duties of the headquarters commandant.