main task
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandtask
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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task
noun
uk/tɑːsk/us/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofmainandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmain task
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This provides the background of ourmaintask.
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But these items were not included in themaintask, only in the pilot study.
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After all, amaintaskis to debunk a certain kind of critic.
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Themaintaskof the state is to initiate, coordinate, and advise.
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Themaintaskof persuading tappers to return to work was left to the civil authorities.
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Returning to ourmaintask, we consider the constraint of incompressibility.
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Themaintaskwas an on-line visual probe recognition task.
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Nevertheless, these factors were included as co-variates in all analyses of themaintask.
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Elster sees hismaintaskas pointing out the indeterminate emotional mechanisms.
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Themaintaskis to indicate priorities for research.
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Themaintask(restated forcefully in the conclusion) gives the same impression.
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In our opinion, themaintaskof our senses is to select the most suitable information for the task at hand, and to do so fast.
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In addition to these technical requirements, themaintaskof with-loop scheduling is to distribute the computational workload among threads as evenly as possible.
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Learners also took a vocabulary test to make sure they knew the idiosyncratic meaning of the verbs included in themaintask.
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Itsmaintaskwas to administer an oath to one of the parties involved in order to determine the guilt or innocence of the persons standing trial.
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In this paper, we summarize themaintasktypes and illustrate how a wide variety of practical problems are formulated in terms of these tasks.
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Ourmaintaskin this paper is to determine the limits of various sequences of real numbers.
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They can also carry out reasonable action while performing themaintask, for example, tracking a given end-effector trajectory.
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Itsmaintaskis the description and specification of the entailment-inducing properties of sentences in terms of a logical system.
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