Topic and Task

noun

• The subject matter of a conversation or discussion.
  • usage: "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love"
  • synonyms: subject, theme
• Some situation or event that is thought about.
  • usage: "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"
  • synonyms: subject, issue, matter

• (n.) A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle.
• (a.) Topical.
• (n.) The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse or argument or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.
• (n.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc.
• (n.) An argument or reason.
• (n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.

noun

• Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.
  • usage: "he prepared for great undertakings"
  • synonyms: undertaking, project, labor
• A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee.
  • usage: "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
  • synonyms: job, chore

verb

• Assign a task to.
  • usage: "I tasked him with looking after the children"
• Use to the limit.
  • usage: "you are taxing my patience"
  • synonyms: tax

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