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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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stint
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in ?stintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-Germanic *stuntijan? and Proto-Germanic *stintan? (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
Verb
stint (third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted)
- (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
- 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?
- We maun have pain that never shall stint.
- 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?
- (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- Now wol I stynten of this Arveragus, / And speken I wole of Dorigen his wyf
- Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales:
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- Synonym: skimp
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
- 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
- I shall not in the least go about to extenuate the Latitude of it: or to stint it only to the Produ?tion of Weeds, of Thorns, Thisiles, and other the less useful Kinds of Plants
- 1729, William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
- She stints them in their meals.
- 1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse, in the Stable and the Field
- The majority of maiden mares will become stinted while at work.
- 1861, John Henry Walsh, The Horse, in the Stable and the Field
Translations
Noun
stint (plural stints)
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- God has wrote upon no created thing the utmost stint of his power.
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
- His old stint — three thousand pounds a year.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.
Noun
stint (plural stints)
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
stint (plural stints)
- Misspelling of stent (medical device).
Anagrams
- 'tisn't, it'sn't, tints
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
- stunt
- stänt
- stejnt
- stönt
- stant
Etymology
Related to stött (“short,”) stynt (“to shorten.”)
Noun
stint f (definite & vocative stinta, vocative plural stinte)
- A girl, i.e. an unmarried woman.
Declension
Synonyms
- gänt
- täus
Derived terms
- gamstint
- gjetarstint
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