Task vs Attribute - What's the difference?

task | attribute |

As nouns the difference between task and attribute

is that task is a piece of work done as part of one’s duties while attribute is .

As a verb task

is to assign a task to, or impose a task on.

task

English

Noun

(en noun)

A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= 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.}}

A difficult or tedious undertaking.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample

, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}

An objective.

(computing) A process or execution of a program.

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) process

Derived terms

* multitasking * subtask * task force * take to task * taskable * taskbody * tasklet * taskmaster

Verb

(en verb)

To assign a task to, or impose a task on.

On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.

* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2

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.

* Dryden

There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.

To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

To charge, as with a fault.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Too impudent to task me with those errors.

Anagrams

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attribute
English
(wikipedia attribute)
Noun
(en noun)
A characteristic or quality of a thing.

His finest attribute is his kindness.

(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.

In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".

(computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.

This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.

(logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.

(computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method, etc. may be decorated.

There are some more implementations which use C
attribute s to define custom attributes specific to the AOP engine. Then the classes that need to be intercepted will be decorated with these custom attributes.

Synonyms
* See also
Derived terms
() * attributeness * relational attribute
Related terms
() * attributive
Verb
(attribut)
To ascribe (something) (to) a given cause, reason etc.

* Archbishop Tillotson

We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.

* Shakespeare

The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.

* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 278:

H?kim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.

To associate ownership or authorship of (something) (to) someone.

This poem is attributed to Browning.

Derived terms
() * attributable * attribution
External links
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