different between task vs tase

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

English

Etymology

Back-formation from taser, from the trademark Taser, by reinterpretation as tase + -er.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?z, IPA^(key): /te?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z

Verb

tase (third-person singular simple present tases, present participle tasing, simple past and past participle tased)

1. to operate a taser or electroshock stun gun, by using it against a subject

Synonyms

• taser

Translations

Noun

tase (plural tases)

1. An electric shock administered with a taser.

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, TEAs, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, seta, teas

Estonian

Etymology

Compare Finnish taso.

Noun

tase (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. level

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Anagrams

• aste

Finnish

(index ta)

Etymology

tasa +? -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?se?/, [?t??s?e?(?)]
• Rhymes: -?se
• Syllabification: ta?se

Noun

tase

1. (accounting) balance sheet

Declension

Coordinate terms

• vastaava
• vastattava

Anagrams

• Seat, aste, seta

Latvian

Noun

tase f (5th declension)

1. cup
2. cupful

Declension

See also

• bi?eris
• godalga
• kauss
• kr?z?te
• pok?ls

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tas?/, [?tas?]

Noun

tase

1. inflection of tasa:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?taze/

Verb

tase

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Spanish

Verb

tase

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

Venetian

Noun

tase

1. plural of tasa