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Task   /tæsk/   Listen
noun
Task  n.  
1.
Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount. "Ma task of servile toil." "Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close."
2.
Business; employment; undertaking; labor. "His mental powers were equal to greater tasks."
To take to task. See under Take.
Synonyms: Work; labor; employment; business; toil; drudgery; study; lesson; stint.


verb
Task  v. t.  (past & past part. tasked; pres. part. tasking)  
1.
To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to. "There task thy maids, and exercise the loom."
2.
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
3.
To charge; to tax, as with a fault. "Too impudent to task me with those errors."





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"Task" Quotes from Famous Books



... The task of preparing a new edition of the Scriptures was assigned to St. Jerome, the most learned Hebrew scholar of his time. This new translation was disseminated throughout Christendom, and on that account was called the ...
— The Faith of Our Fathers • James Cardinal Gibbons
... to be derived from the control of a trained school of Shakespearean actors were displayed very conspicuously when Mr Benson undertook six years ago the heroic task of performing the play of Hamlet, as Shakespeare wrote it, without any abbreviation. Hamlet is the longest of Shakespeare's plays; it reaches a total of over 3900 lines. It is thus some 900 lines longer than Antony ...
— Shakespeare and the Modern Stage - with Other Essays • Sir Sidney Lee
... maidens, daughters of the King, saw that Rasâlu had performed his task, they set him another, bidding him swing them all, one by one, in their swings, ...
— Tales Of The Punjab • Flora Annie Steel
... the bedrooms was situated upon the lower floor, and to this Mr. Dare was carried, and laid down as tenderly as these men were able to do such an unaccustomed task. He drew a deep breath when his head touched the pillow, and an ...
— Richard Dare's Venture • Edward Stratemeyer
... influenced me enormously," she said, in the tone of one absorbed by the possibilities of some view just presented to them; "but in my life there's so little scope for it," she added. She reviewed her daily task, the perpetual demands upon her for good sense, self-control, and accuracy in a house containing a romantic mother. Ah, but her romance wasn't THAT romance. It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words. She ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf


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