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calling
English
Etymology
call +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??l??/
- Rhymes: -??l??
Verb
calling
- present participle of call
Noun
calling (plural callings)
- A strong urge to become religious.
- A job or occupation.
Synonyms
- vocation
Translations
calling From the web:
- what callings come from the stake presidency
- what calling apps work in dubai
- what calling out means
- what calling restrictions mean
- what callings does the bishop extend
- what callings does the stake president extended
- what callings come from high council
- what callings are extended by stake president
task
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English task, taske, from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin tax?re (“censure; charge”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??sk/
- (US) IPA(key): /tæsk/
- Rhymes: -æsk
Noun
task (plural tasks)
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- The employee refused to complete the assignment, arguing that it was not one of the tasks listed in her job description.
- Any piece of work done.
- 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
Derived terms
Translations
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.
- On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
- 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 1 scene 2
- 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.
- c. 1693-1696, John Dryden, Last parting of Hector and Andromache: From the Sixth Book of Homer's Iliads
- There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
- (transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
- (transitive) To charge, as with a fault.
- Too impudent to task me with those errors.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
task
- Alternative form of taisch
Anagrams
- AKST, Kast, KTAS, askt, kast, kats, skat
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