different between mandate vs task

English

Etymology

Noun is borrowed from Latin mand?tum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), neut of. mand?tus, past participle of mand?re (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”), from manus (“hand”) + dare (“to put”). Compare command, commend, demand, remand.

The verb is from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

• IPA^(key): /?mæn.de?t/

Verb

• IPA^(key): /?mæn.de?t/, /mæn?de?t/

Noun

mandate (plural mandates)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
2. (politics) The authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
   • 2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press (?ISBN), page 30

     John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.

3. A papal rescript.
4. (Canada) A period during which a government is in power.

Translations

Verb

mandate (third-person singular simple present mandates, present participle mandating, simple past and past participle mandated)

1. to authorize
2. to make mandatory

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• mandate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mandate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: mandatent, mandates

Verb

mandate

1. first-person singular present indicative of mandater
2. third-person singular present indicative of mandater
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mandater
4. second-person singular imperative of mandater

Italian

Noun

mandate f

1. plural of mandata

Verb

mandate

1. second-person plural present of mandare
2. second-person plural imperative of mandare
3. feminine plural past participle of mandare

Anagrams

• damante

Latin

Participle

mand?te

1. vocative masculine singular of mand?tus

Spanish

Verb

mandate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mandatar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mandatar.

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)

1. 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.

2. Any piece of work done.
3. A difficult or tedious undertaking.
4. An objective.
5. (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)

1. (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.
2. (transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
3. (transitive) To charge, as with a fault.

   • Too impudent to task me with those errors.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

task

1. Alternative form of taisch

Anagrams

• AKST, Kast, KTAS, askt, kast, kats, skat