TASK

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task I. substantiv

1. lucru (impus), sarcină; lecţie, lucrare şcolară, pedeapsă scrisă (dată elevilor), temă;

to set a pupil to task a da unui şcolar de făcut o lecţie, a pune pe un elev la lucru.

2. lucru (care trebuie executat, indiferent dacă e impus sau voluntar); sarcină, datorie; lucru, lucrare, muncă, treabă;

to set smb. a task a da / a impune cuiva un lucru / o muncă (de executat);

to apply oneself to a task a-şi da silinţa să facă un lucru / o muncă;

an irksome task o muncă grea / obositoare, o corvoadă.

3. to take a person to task (for smth.) a cere cuiva socoteală (pentru ceva); a dojeni, a mustra, a certa, a muştrului pe cineva.

task II. verb tranzitiv

1. a da de lucru (cuiva), a pune la lucru; a impune un lucru / o muncă (cuiva); a desemna / a fixa o muncă / sarcină (cuiva).

2. (rar) a pune la încercare (mintea, memoria, puterile fizice etc.);

to task smb.'s memory a pune la încercare memoria cuiva.

3. (mar.) a pune la încercare / probă (lemnăria, scheletul, căptuşeala la unui vas).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I pursued him, and for many months this has been my task.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Now that something else had been finished, and he would apply himself to this task until it was finished.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

God help me in my task!

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Nothing seems to cost him any trouble, said I. He knows a task if he only looks at it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Edith shook her head and bent again to her task.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

I think he will be the most useful at this task.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A unit of work done by a computer consisting of a single complete task.

(Computer Job, NCI Thesaurus)

I am not accustomed to be taken to task so sharply.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall ride back, Nigel, with four thousand of the best lances of France at my back, so that your prince may find he hath a task which is worthy of him.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not so simple a task for one man.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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