tasknoun詞源 1/tɑːsk/

• 1

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

  • daily task
  • monotonous 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

  A difficult or tedious undertaking.

  • 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.
• 5

  An objective.

• 6

  computingengineeringmathematicsA process or execution of a program.

  • The user killed the frozen task.
• 7

  obsoleteA tax or charge.

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

taskverb詞源 1/tɑːsk/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  To charge, as with a fault.

  • Too impudent to task me with those errors.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• taisch