task
substantivoverbosubstantivocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//tɑːsk//
- Estados Unidos//tæsk//
- Escócia//task//
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
substantivo
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A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
daily task
monotonous task
regular task
parental task
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Any piece of work done.
carry out a task
complete a task
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.
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A single action undertaken by a given agent.
[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
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A difficult or tedious undertaking.
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.
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An objective.
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A process or execution of a program.
The user killed the frozen task.
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obsoletoA tax or charge.
Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]
Etimologia
From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”). Doublet of tax.
verbo
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To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
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.
By 1966 the building was considered so unsafe that the Royal Engineers were tasked with demolishing it.
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To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
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To charge, as with a fault.
Too impudent to task me with those errors.
substantivo
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Variante de taischAlternative form of taisch.
Formas
- plural
- tasks
- pretérito
- tasked
- particípio passado
- tasked
- gerúndio
- tasking
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- tasks
task · A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
taste · One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to…tasting · A small amount of food or drink.tasty · Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.