English Dictionary

task

IPA（発音記号）

/tɑːsk/

名詞

廃用

A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. / Any piece of work done. / A difficult or tedious undertaking. / An objective. / (computing) A process or execution of a program.

日本語の意味

職務の一環として行われる仕事、作業 / 行われる作業全般 / 困難で骨の折れる、または退屈な作業 / 目的、目標 / (コンピュータ分野における) プロセス、プログラムの実行

Please complete the task before the end of the day.

本日中にその仕事を終えてください。

意味（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.

意味（2）

Any piece of work done.

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

意味（3）

A difficult or tedious undertaking.

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

意味（4）

An objective.

意味（5）

(computing) A process or execution of a program.

The user killed the frozen task.

意味（6）

(obsolete) A tax or charge.

Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]

tasks （ plural ）