task — İngilizce Sözlük

İsim

1. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.

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   assignmentchorejob

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   roster

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   daily task, monotonous task, regular task, parental task

   The employee refused to complete the assignment, arguing that it was not one of the tasks listed in her job description.

2. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. A state of diligence in work on a task.

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   I put him to task on the chores.

3. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. Any piece of work done.

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   carry out a task

   complete a task

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   Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

4. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. A single action undertaken by a given agent.

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   Each member of the team completed tasks in service of the goal.

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   [T]here is a well-defined run in which the stages of Atalanta’s run are punctuated by finite rests, arguably showing the possibility of completing an infinite series of finite tasks in a finite time

5. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. A difficult or tedious undertaking; a substantial project.

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   Getting him to change his behavior will be quite a task for you.

   I'm currently working on the task she gave me, alphabetizing all of those print files.

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   Solving the economy is an enormous task for the ministry.

   As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

6. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. An objective or duty.

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   goalobjective

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   Your task is the elimination of the termites.

7. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. A process or execution of a program.

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   process

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   The user killed the frozen task.

8. State of being subject to reprimands.

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   hot seat

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   call to task, take to task

   I will put him to task for what he's done.

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   Can she hold us to task for that?

   I hope somebody has brought him to task by now.

9. A tax or charge.

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   levy

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   Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]

Fiil

1. To assign a task to; to 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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   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.

   There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.

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   By 1966 the building was considered so unsafe that the Royal Engineers were tasked with demolishing it.

2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax

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   He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.

3. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax To institute a tax on.

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   levytax

4. To charge, as with a fault.

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   Too impudent to task me with those errors.

İsim

1. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

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   undertakingprojectlaborlabour

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   work

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   he prepared for great undertakings

2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

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   jobchore

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   duty

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   estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars

   the job of repairing the engine took several hours

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   the endless task of classifying the samples

   the farmer's morning chores

Fiil

1. assign a task to

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   delegatedesignatedeputeassign

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   I tasked him with looking after the children

2. use to the limit

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   tax

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   strainextend

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   you are taxing my patience