1(of a person) deal with more than one task at the same time.
‘I managed my time efficiently and multitasked’
‘It says, ‘I am multitasking when I am talking on the phone, trying to finish some paperwork, and trying to answer with my hands someone who has asked me a question.’’
‘Think about that the next time you're multitasking.’
‘When it looks like you're multitasking - you're looking at one TV screen and another TV screen and you're talking on the telephone - your attention has to shift from one to the other.’
‘Mind you, I was multitasking - that's right, Luke can do more than one thing badly at the same time - so it wasn't as though I wasn't working at the same time.’
‘I'm far more productive when I've got lots of things on my plate instead of when just the one; if I'm not multitasking, nothing gets done.’
‘When you're multitasking at full tilt, balance is one of the first things to suffer.’
‘We're always multitasking, especially us women.’
‘Dancers are multitasking - not just doing steps, but expressing a character, showing a choreographic pattern to make the ensemble work clear.’
‘If we are not compartmentalizing, we are multitasking.’
‘He was always multitasking and thinking of better ways to do things.’
‘I am just saying that people are doing all this - they are multitasking when they're driving.’
‘I can multitask and perform the gruelling art of time management to perfection.’
‘The thing is, they really don't have any less of my attention than they used to, before I started multitasking in meetings.’
‘I've heard some women claim that men do not multitask well… I think I do pretty well where that is concerned, but to a point.’
‘This is not the same as multitasking, which involves dealing with more than one job at the same time.’
‘She claims that she can multitask mindless tasks while she gives full attention to our conversation.’
‘With alternating awe and bemusement, Paul watches as his entrepreneur wife multitasks, plunging herself into the center of whatever she touches - creating, re-creating, changing, improving.’
‘They don't multitask as much as younger generations do, preferring to engage in one medium at a time, but they haven't abandoned the media habits they developed growing up even as they have embraced the new.’
‘Sure, most guys can't multitask, but at least your shaving products can.’
‘Initially, it struck me that multitasking whilst at a conference is really bad for your concentration.’
2(of a computer) execute more than one program or task simultaneously.
‘its interface and ability to multitask feels a lot better than the devices powered by the single core processor’
‘They say other benefits include faster screen redraws for improved imaging, faster loading of applications, better multitasking, and faster execution of Java and other programming languages.’
‘I think the point is that a preemptively multitasking, protected mode virtual memory operating system shouldn't be letting third party DLLs crash the system.’
‘For average users, this computer would redefine multitasking.’
‘It's based on a multitasking kernel - there's multitasking in there - but we had to make some choice there.’
‘Again, clock speeds seem to matter more with current applications and multitasking.’
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