task meaning
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- Task may refer to:
- Task (project management), an activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time or by a deadline
- Task (computing), in computing, a program execution context
- TASK party, a series of improvisational participatory art-related events organized by artist Oliver Herring
- Task (language instruction) refers to a certain type of activity used in language instruction
- The TASK family of potassium ion channels
- Task (L): Dragon deity
- NounPLtasks
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- 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.
- A difficult or tedious undertaking.
- 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.
- An objective.
- (computing) A process or execution of a program.
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- VerbSGtasksPRtaskingPT, PPtasked
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Mental rotation task performance results suggest that the ELF MF exposure studied here (60 Hz, 3000 μT) modulates associated neuroprocessing, although the behavioural outcome is not altered.
- Test subjects struggled with the task after a nonpractice period.
- Hundreds of Kanker's troops would have to be thrown into the job of plugging the holes, a difficult task under ideal conditions, but a pig of a task in a “dustout”.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.
- She will clean her cottage — though its condition of age and fustering decay may render it an almost impossible task.
- Hence, an adaptation of the context similarity-based selection method to multiclassification problems remains an interesting future task.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of task in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
- en taskmaster
- en tasks
- en tasked
- en tasker
- en taskers
Source: Wiktionary