An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TASK
job, task, chore
(noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; “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”; “the endless task of classifying the samples”; “the farmer’s morning chores”
undertaking, project, task, labor
(noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; “he prepared for great undertakings”
tax, task
(verb) use to the limit; “you are taxing my patience”
task
(verb) assign a task to; “I tasked him with looking after the children”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
task (plural tasks)
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
A difficult or tedious undertaking.
An objective.
(computing) A process or execution of a program.
Usage notes
• Adjectives often applied to "task": difficult, easy, simple, hard, tough, complex, not-so-easy, challenging, complicated, tricky, formidable, arduous, laborious, onerous, small, big, huge, enormous, tremendous, gigantic, mammoth, colossal, gargantuan, social, intellectual, theological, important, basic, trivial, unpleasant, demanding, pleasant, noble, painful, grim, responsible, rewarding, boring, ungrateful, delightful, glorious, agreeable.
Synonyms
• (piece of work): chore, job
• (difficult undertaking): undertaking
• (objective): objective, goal
• (process): process
Verb
task (third-person singular simple present tasks, present participle tasking, simple past and past participle tasked)
(transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
(transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
(transitive) To charge, as with a fault.
Etymology 2
Noun
task
Alternative form of taisch
Anagrams
• AKST, Kast, askt, kast, kats, skat
Source: Wiktionary
Task, n. Etym: [OE. taske, OF. tasque, F. tâche, for tasche, LL. tasca, taxa, fr. L. taxare to rate, appraise, estimate. See Tax, n. & v.]
1. Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount. Ma task of servile toil. Milton. Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close. Longfellow.
2. Business; employment; undertaking; labor. His mental powers were equal to greater tasks. Atterbury. To take to task. See under Take.
Syn.
– Work; labor; employment; business; toil; drudgery; study; lesson; stint.
Task, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasked; p. pr. & vb. n. Tasking.]
1. To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to. There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. Dryden.
2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
3. To charge; to tax; as with a fault. Too impudent to task me with those errors. Beau. & Fl.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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