Definition of "task" []

• A piece of work assigned or done as part of one's duties. (noun)
• A difficult or tedious undertaking. (noun)
• A function to be performed; an objective. (noun)
• To assign a task to or impose a task on. (verb-transitive)
• To overburden with labor; tax. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Also I wrapped the $task like this: addslashes$task in insertTask.php because otherwise double quotes are not accepted into a new task, and the DHTML corrupts."
• "The @task decorator registers the function as a task, tying it in to the list of options available from the command line."
• "Now, the ethologist's main task is to understand the perceptual world of the animal and that requires a tricky kind of concentration, especially with a creature like the octopus, which is basically a snail that's as smart as a cat, and from the human perspective the most alien intelligence on the planet."