1. task - Noun
2. task - Verb
Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. Livy
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. Lucian
...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive and to pass on undiluted purification, the divine light, and the understanding which brings perfection. Maximus the Confessor
To be willing is only half the task. Armenian Proverb
It is enough to see a person in one task to understand what they are like in ten others. Korean Proverb
Who picks a tool unsuited to a task should not complain if it does no more than cut the hand that holds it. Darkovan Proverb