Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

task

UK /tɑːsk/ · US /tæsk/ noun, verb

Forms tasks tasking tasked

  1. noun (countable) A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. “daily task, monotonous task, regular task, parental task”
  2. noun (uncountable) A state of diligence in work on a task. “I put him to task on the chores.”
  3. noun (countable) Any piece of work done. “carry out a task”
  4. noun (countable) A single action undertaken by a given agent. “Each member of the team completed tasks in service of the goal.”
  5. noun (countable) A difficult or tedious undertaking; a substantial project. “Getting him to change his behavior will be quite a task for you.”
  6. noun (countable) An objective or duty. “Your task is the elimination of the termites.”
  7. noun (countable, computing) A process or execution of a program. “The user killed the frozen task.”
  8. noun (uncountable) State of being subject to reprimands. “call to task, take to task”
  9. verb (transitive) To assign a task to; to impose a task on. “On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.”
  10. verb (transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
  11. verb (obsolete, transitive) To institute a tax on.
  12. verb (transitive) To charge, as with a fault.

Synonyms

assignment chore job goal objective see: Thesaurus:goal process hot seat levy tax undertaking project labor

Etymology

From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”). Doublet of tax.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
  2. noun Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
  3. verb To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to. There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. Dryden.
  4. verb To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

Etymology [OE. taske, OF. tasque, F. tâche, for tasche, LL. tasca, taxa, fr. L. taxare to rate, appraise, estimate. See Tax, n. & v.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “task”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “task” (best matches first).