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task

noun
/tɑːsk/UK/task//tæsk/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from taxō — “to censure; to charge”
  2. derived from tasca
  3. derived from tasque
  4. inherited from taske — “task, tax”

Definitions

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

    • daily task
    • monotonous task
    • regular task

  2. Any piece of work done.

    • carry out a task
    • complete a task

  3. 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
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A difficult or tedious undertaking.

    2. An objective.

    3. A process or execution of a program.

      • The user killed the frozen task.

    4. A tax or charge.

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

    5. 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.

    6. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens

      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.

    7. To charge, as with a fault.

      • Too impudent to task me with those errors.

    8. Alternative form of taisch.

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Derived

call to task, multitasking, on task, Sally-Anne task, Sternberg task, subtask, supertask, take to task, taskable, taskbar, task control, task failed successfully, task-force, task force, task group, taskless, tasklet, task manager, taskmaster, task-negative, task-oriented, task-positive, task-specific, multitask, multi-task

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at task. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at task. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at task

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA