(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.
Zombie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(2) The business described it in a since-deleted Facebook post as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport”.
(3) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
(4) Understandably so, since we’re talking about ice demons who can command zombie hordes.
(5) Up against the continuing might of animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 3 , as well as fellow debutants including romantic drama The Choice and horror-comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , the 50s-set tale of a major film star gone missing scored just $11.4m (£7.9m) to open in second place.
(6) But I am trying to claw the innocent joy of Halloween out of the cold, deadened clutches of the Zombie of Forced Sexiness.
(7) Nor are Hay Day, Plants vs. Zombies 2, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, The Sims FreePlay, Angry Birds Go, or anything with “Saga” on the end.
(8) • Internet fridges: the zombie idea that just won't die
(9) ), there are practical concerns about functionally turning one's phone into a zombie in the undead Zuckerberg army: Leviathan212 04 April 2013 6:48pm Sounds like an absolute horror.
(10) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
(11) However, what Warner has helped create is a "zombie policy" – currently politically dormant but waiting to be given the kiss of life in the future.
(12) Also prompting hyperventilating zombie headlines was a leaked “secret” Labor options paper on climate policy – which basically said only what we already knew – that Labor would have an emissions trading scheme of some sort in combination with other policies (the same ones that could help meet the renewable energy goal) as well as things like vehicle emission standards.
(13) It’s a trope that often plays an important part in the narrative of zombie stories.
(14) Microsoft statisticians estimate that owners of the new console have already dispatched more than 60m zombies, driven 3.6m miles and earned 43m fit points as they explore some of the 22 titles available at launch.
(15) Presumably, becoming a zombie involves some sort of widespread, systematic brain damage in which baser survival instincts take over, and motor and language areas are damaged, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the zombie doesn’t remember .
(16) But vampires and zombies are old news, according to Quirk.
(17) But, unlike most of the bizarre things said about this place, the zombies at least make sense.
(18) Back when it suited Green, he emphasized that Assange has not been charged with any crime, that there is far from any certainty that he would be, and that extradition to Sweden is merely for him "to be questioned" on these allegations: exactly the "myths" and "zombie facts" which he now purports to bust.
(19) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
(20) The TV series was part of a “zombie-like revival of the defunct empire”.