Uttal

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
  2. A difficult or tedious undertaking.
  3. An objective.
  4. (computing) A process or execution of a program.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
  2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
  3. To charge, as with a fault.

Exempel

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Too impudent to task me with those errors.
  • 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.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticiptasked
Imperfekttasked
Presensparticiptasking
Pluraltasks
Tredje person singular indicativ presenstasks