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- Your task is probably 200% of what you think it is.

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Quick take

any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"

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"

verb

assign a task to; "I tasked him with looking after the children"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for task.

noun

any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"

noun

verb

assign a task to; "I tasked him with looking after the children"

verb

use to the limit; "you are taxing my patience"

Example sentences

- Your task is probably 200% of what you think it is.

Good, find someone who will pay you to do the task manually before we program it.

It's easy to train kids to learn some task for some as-at-yet determined future purpose.

I know that things like this can interrupt daily workflows quite a bit, even if getting rid of those mails is not a Herculean task.

Additionally, it's a task that gives you a tangible sense of accomplishment.

Ordinary people can understand that you need quiet if you're working on some specific, hard task, like doing math homework.

Another is a work-sample test, where the applicant does an actual task or group of tasks like what the applicant will do on the job if hired.

" There are a lot of engineers who operate in that mode, do their assigned tasks at an acceptable quality level and without too much schedule slip.

When a suit approaches me to be the geek for their idea, I usually give them some simple technical task to do - like setup a Tumblr or a Twitter account for the idea.

A task that specialists have so far failed at.> "I read a textbook on physiological chemistry and took to the internet to see if I could find every known essential nutrient.

But its not a 'feel bad about it' leaving it is 'hmm, this isn't going to work out here so lets go somewhere that it could'.The alternative to having an agenda is "Goofing off and waiting for someone to give you a task.

> Stallman had this to say upon his induction: "Now that we have made the Internet work, the next task is to stop it from being a platform for massive surveillance, and make it work in a way that respects human rights, including privacy.

My only qualm from reading it thus far is the very last section under Navigation [1] regarding System-to-app navigation:"For the Back key, you should make navigation more predictably [sic] by inserting into the task's back stack the complete upward navigation path to the app's topmost screen."No.