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Exploit : (noun)
1: a notable achievement; "he performed a great deed"; "the
book was her finest effort" [syn: deed, feat, effort]
(verb)
1: use or manipulate to one's advantage; "He exploit the new
taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system";
"he works his parents for sympathy" [syn: work]
2: draw from; make good use of; "we must exploit the resources
we are given wisely" [syn: tap]
3: work excessively hard; "he is exploiting the students" [syn:
overwork]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Exploit : \Ex*ploit"\, n. [OE. esploit success, OF. esploit,
espleit,revenue, product, vigor, force, exploit, F. exploit
exploit, fr. L. explicitum, prop. p. p. neut. of explicare to
unfold, display, exhibit; ex _ plicare to fold. See Ply,
and cf. Explicit, Explicate.]
1. A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown;
an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of
Alexander the Great.
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. --Shak.
2. Combat; war. [Obs.]
He made haste to exploit some warlike service.
--Holland.
2. [F. exploiter.] To utilize; to make available; to get the
value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or
agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion. [Recent]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Exploit :
A security hole or an instance of taking advantage
of a security hole.
"[...] hackers say exploit. sysadmins say hole"
-- http://emke.com/)">Mike Emke (http://emke.com/).
Emke reports that the stress is on the second syllable. If
this is true, this may be a case of hackerly zero-deriving
verbs (especially instantials) from nouns, akin to "write" as
a noun to describe an instance of a disk drive writing to a
disk.
(2001-11-24)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Exploit : n. [originally cracker slang] 1. A vulnerability in software
that can be used for breaking security or otherwise attacking an
Internet host over the network. The Ping O' Death is a famous exploit.
2. More grammatically, a program that exploits an exploit in sense 1.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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