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.
TASKING
Verb
tasking
present participle of task
Noun
tasking (plural taskings)
(military) A task; an assigned item of work.
Anagrams
• Gitksan, skating, skin tag, skin-tag, skintag, staking, takings
Source: Wiktionary
TASK
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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