Task vs. Test — What's the Difference?

A piece of work assigned or done as part of one's duties.

A procedure for critical evaluation; a means of determining the presence, quality, or truth of something; a trial

A difficult or tedious undertaking

A series of questions, problems, or physical responses designed to determine knowledge, intelligence, or ability.

A function to be performed; an objective

A basis for evaluation or judgment

To assign a task to or impose a task on

(Chemistry) A physical or chemical change by which a substance may be detected or its properties ascertained.

(Archaic) To subject to strain or hardship

A cupel.

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

A hard external covering, as that of certain amoebas, dinoflagellates, and sea urchins.

Any piece of work done.

To subject to a test; try

A difficult or tedious undertaking.

To reveal the degree of (a given quality) in someone or something by or as if by means of a test

An objective.

To identify the presence or amount of one or more substances in

(computing) A process or execution of a program.

To identify the amount of (a substance) in something

(obsolete) A tax or charge.

To ascertain the properties of

(transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.

To assay (metal) in a cupel.

(transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax

To undergo a test.

(transitive) To charge, as with a fault.

To administer a test

Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

To achieve a score or rating on tests

Business; employment; undertaking; labor.

To exhibit a given characteristic when subjected to a test

To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.

A challenge, trial.

To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

To charge; to tax, as with a fault.

(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.

Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted;

A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.

A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee;

A Test match.

Assign a task to;

(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.

Use to the limit;

(botany) Testa; seed coat.

(obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

(obsolete) A witness.

Testosterone

To challenge.

To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).

To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.

(copulative) To be shown to be by test.

(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

To attest (a document) legally, and date it.

To make a testament, or will.

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.

Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.

That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.

A set of questions to be answered or problems to be solved, used as a means to measure a person's knowledge, aptitude, skill, intelligence, etc.; in school settings, synonymous with examination or exam; as, an intelligence test. Also used attributively; as a test score, test results.

A witness.

The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.

The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.

To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.

To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

To administer a test to (someone) for the purpose of ascertaining a person's knowledge or skill; especially, in academic settings, to determine how well a student has learned the subject matter of a course of instruction.

To make a testament, or will.

Any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc;

The act of testing something;

The act of undergoing testing;

Trying something to find out about it;

A set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge;

A hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins

Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;

Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;

Examine someone's knowledge of something;

Show a certain characteristic when tested;

Achieve a certain score or rating on a test;

Determine the presence or properties of (a substance)

Undergo a test;