What's the difference between monumental and task?

Monumental


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
  • (a.) Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Nelson Monument and other sites (0131-226 6558), 2 August–2 September.
  • (2) They killed monuments, changed them, reappropriated them.
  • (3) It offers us a new start, and a far more hopeful future.” The first minister, Peter Robinson , described the deal as a “monumental step forward” for Northern Ireland.
  • (4) These are some of the finest Neolithic monuments in the world, and in 1999 they were given World Heritage status by Unesco, an act that led directly to the discovery of the Ness of Brodgar.
  • (5) The National Heritage Memorial Fund found a further £10m and the National Galleries of Scotland £4.6m, with £2m from the Monument Trust and £1m from the Art Fund, while members of the public and private donors gave another £7.4m.
  • (6) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
  • (7) The club has completely adopted all of KSÍ’s infrastructure improvements and become, in the process, a monument to Iceland’s soccer revolution.
  • (8) But within a few kilometres of these monuments to tyranny stand symbols of renewal – rows of solar panels bringing stable electricity to the homes of local people for the first time – and with them the chance of improving their lives.
  • (9) And yet I sense a crumbling of the monumental Boris facade, the great artificial construct designed to make him prime minister, for reasons I have never understood.
  • (10) (Britain's Monument Valley by UsTwo shows on the screen.)
  • (11) For a team of this ability to play so well and lose 4-1 shows what a monumental effort it was from Chelsea.
  • (12) But if Johnson's monuments suffer from the columnist's love of making a splash, his mayoralty has been more impressive when it comes to things that are barely visible, or about taking stuff away rather than adding it.
  • (13) Algeria deserved a better fate than an exit which inevitably will leave big regrets that they missed out on something monumental or unreal, but the national team left the Brazilian World Cup with sword in hand and head high.” In Germany most of the media were just thankful they had progressed.
  • (14) But Marc Ostwald at Monument Securities took a more sceptical view and said there were plenty of reasons not to chase the gilt "relief rally".
  • (15) The parade passes the 2,248-room Trump Taj Mahal, another monument to the good times.
  • (16) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
  • (17) This is a change of monumental proportions both in the law and in the role of doctors; it is little wonder that it is opposed by the medical profession.
  • (18) Memorial began by erecting a monument in 1990 dedicated to the victims of political repression.
  • (19) Fullerton says there is great potential ahead if society can change its collective mindset: “This is a monumental challenge that holds the promise of uniting our generation in a shared purpose.
  • (20) John Madelin, CEO at RelianceACSN and a former vice president responsible for the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, said: “We thought the previous breach of 500 million user accounts was huge, but 1 billion is monumental.” Tyler Moffitt, senior threat research analyst at Webroot, said: “All of the data stolen, including emails, passwords and security questions, make a potent package for identify theft.

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.