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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



... painful impressions, or to raise what is ignoble, and disguise what is discordant, in a scene so rich in its remembrances, so surpassing in its beauty. But for this work of the imagination there must be no permission during the task which is before us. The impotent feelings of romance, so singularly characteristic of this century, may indeed gild, but never save the remains of those mightier ages to which they are attached like climbing flowers; and ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin
... could get them to be not unwilling partners in hard work. He subjected himself not only to the same conditions of living as these men, but also to the same dangers and was the first to accomplish every task that he demanded of them. Likewise he was confident that they, too, without pretexts and with zeal,—since he showed his care for them not in words only,—would help him effect ...
— Dio's Rome, Vol VI. • Cassius Dio
... to task for this when a note arrived from Zura. I had been almost sure that my invitation would meet the same fate as the English lessons. My fears disappeared when I opened the missive. It read ...
— The House of the Misty Star - A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan • Fannie Caldwell Macaulay
... day and the night passed quietly. There was no other alarm, and riding herd was an easy task. Nor was there any stoppage of the water, which ran freely out through the pipe from the underground tunnel as though there had never been any interruption of its very ...
— The Boy Ranchers in Camp - or The Water Fight at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker
... too, got into the cart, sat down heavily, and, as though without noticing it, squeezed Mitya into the corner. It is true that he was out of humor and greatly disliked the task that ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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