Item vs Task - What's the difference?
item | task |
A distinct physical object.
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, title= A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
(label) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
A matter for discussion in an agenda.
(label) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
* 2010 , (Justin Bieber) featuring (Ludacris), ''
A short article in a newspaper.
(label) A hint; an innuendo.
* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
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, title= A difficult or tedious undertaking.
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= An objective.
(computing) A process or execution of a program.
To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* Dryden
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
To charge, as with a fault.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
As nouns the difference between item and task
is that item is a distinct physical object while task is a piece of work done as part of one’s duties.As a verb task is
to assign a task to, or impose a task on.item
English
Noun
(en noun)Nick Miroff
Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […], passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […]. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.}}
- Are we an item ? Girl, quit playin' / "We're just friends," what are you sayin'?
- A secret item was given to some of the bishops to absent themselves.
Synonyms
* (object) article, object, thing * (line of text having a legal or semantic meaning) * (matter for discussion) subject, topic * (two people who are having a relationship with each other) couple * (psychometrics) test/assessment questionDerived terms
* subitem * itemize * polarity item * negative polarity item * positive polarity itemAnagrams
* emit, mite, time ----task
English
Noun
(en noun)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "task": difficult, easy, simple, hard, tough, complex, not-so-easy, challenging, complicated, tricky, formidable, arduous, laborious, onerous, small, big, huge, enormous, tremendous, gigantic, mammoth, colossal, gargantuan, social, intellectual, theological, important, basic, trivial, unpleasant, demanding, pleasant, noble, painful, grim, responsible, rewarding, boring, ungrateful, delightful, glorious, agreeable.Synonyms
* (piece of work) chore * (difficult undertaking) undertaking * (objective) objective, goal * (process) processDerived terms
* multitasking * subtask * task force * take to task * taskable * taskbody * tasklet * taskmasterVerb
(en verb)- On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
- All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.
- There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
- Too impudent to task me with those errors.