What's the difference between fag and task?

Fag


Definition:

  • (n.) A knot or coarse part in cloth.
  • (v. i.) To become weary; to tire.
  • (v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
  • (v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
  • (v. t.) To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
  • (v. t.) Anything that fatigues.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rebelling by dabbling in drink, fags, sex – the list goes on – is part of growing up.
  • (2) Here, we examine a group of six recessive mutations, the facets (fa, fa3, fag, fag-2, fafx and fasw), which affect eye and optic lobe morphology and have been previously shown to be associated with the insertion of transposable elements into an intronic region of Notch.
  • (3) There were 54 cases of somaticised anxiety (brain fag); 22 cases of depressive neurosis characterised by hypochondriasis, cognitive complaints, and culturally determined paranoid ideation; 23 cases of 'hysteria' in the form of dissociative states, pseudoseizures and fugues; and 39 cases of brief reactive psychosis which differed from the dissociative states more in duration and intensity than in form.
  • (4) The use of VW FAg levels in the diagnosis of vasculitic disorders has been proposed.
  • (5) It is the fact that the poor spend too much on fags and booze.
  • (6) In this paper an attempt has been made to tie the concept down more firmly by proposing a strict definition, examining the appropriateness of this definition in determining the CBS status of two new syndromes (anorexia nervosa and brain-fag) and analysing the usefulness or not of the basic CBS concept.
  • (7) In males, atrophic areas and the remaining choriocapillaris are clearly demonstrated in FAG and less well visible in ICG angiograms.
  • (8) At baseline, although the levels were not outside the laboratory range, the disease groups had raised VW FAg compared with the simultaneously tested controls.
  • (9) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
  • (10) Venostatic stress increased VW FAg activity in all disease groups, control levels also increased and differences between controls and disease groups diminished in significance.
  • (11) Brown's fear has been that he might inherit the fag end of a tired government.
  • (12) In other words, the noise surrounding this debate, not to mention the TV duel, will only partly be about whether Britain should be in Europe or not: the rest of it, one would imagine, will centre on the issue of immigration, both in terms of its links with the EU, and as a public concern that informs just about every other area of policy – and, implicitly or otherwise, the sense a lot of people have that we are governed by a homogeneous, well-heeled, cosseted bunch of politicians, and among the only people who offer any kind of alternative is Farage, complete with his pint and fag.
  • (13) At fluorescein angiography (FAG) at a mean of 8 months post-operatively, 9 showed leaking from the iridal vessels, and 3 were normal: Three cases were excluded because of factors affecting the iris FAG.
  • (14) He cycles down to the docks, puffs a fag and contemplates the water.
  • (15) In 1995, when Williams walked out on his boyband, he bounded into Liam's rock'n'roll life with ease – because although he had once writhed around in jelly , he also had a rebellious side with a penchant for Adidas jackets, booze, birds and fags.
  • (16) A lovely woman meets us, gives us fags in the cab and says she'll happily answer to the name of Dave too.
  • (17) ITV chief executive Charles Allen accused the corporation of "back of a fag packet" calculations after it requested an inflation-busting settlement that would result in the current £131.50 fee increase to more than £180 by 2014.
  • (18) "Obviously all the other cunts will have the same idea, and the motorways will be rammed," Dad continued, fag wedged in mouth, "so we'll be taking the back roads.
  • (19) In M-SHRSPs with age of 8 weeks, systolic blood pressure was 220mmHg or more and retinal arterioles showed generalised narrowing but no dye leakage was recognized by fluorescein angiography (FAG).
  • (20) The gently warm vapour ingeniously replicates the reflective pause of a real fag, the same quiet little buzz.

Task


Definition:

  • (v.) Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
  • (v.) Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
  • (v. t.) To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
  • (v. t.) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
  • (v. t.) To charge; to tax; as with a fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
  • (3) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
  • (5) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
  • (6) Early detection of breast cancer is the major indication, and mammography is the single best test for this task.
  • (7) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
  • (8) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (9) The effects of noise on information processing in perceptual and memory tasks, as well as time reaction to perceptual stimuli, were investigated in a laboratory experiment.
  • (10) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
  • (11) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
  • (12) In the appetitive passive avoidance task, only the substantia nigra lesion group exhibited a deficiency.
  • (13) For such a task, Malawi needs the best government it can get, and this will have to be demanded by the people.
  • (14) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
  • (15) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
  • (16) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
  • (17) Similarities are pointed out between tasks used for the purpose of operationally defining the schizophrenic 'deficit' and tasks used to define creativity.
  • (18) On the reaction time task no main effects were found but the time X drinker category interaction was significant; in session 1 LSD's RT were shorter than those of HSD.
  • (19) Two different mental stressors were used: a mental arithmetic task with low stimulus intensity and one with high stimulus intensity characterised by more challenging instructions, a more competitive situation, and exposure to affective noise.
  • (20) This information then will allow the physician to determine safe levels of ventilation for a particular work task.

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