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ex⋅ploit
1
[ek-sploit, ik-sploit] 
–noun
| a striking or notable deed; feat; spirited or heroic act: the exploits of Alexander the Great. |
Origin:
1350–1400; ME exploit, espleit < OF exploit, AF espleit < L explicitum, neut. of explicitus (ptp.). See explicit
1350–1400; ME exploit, espleit < OF exploit, AF espleit < L explicitum, neut. of explicitus (ptp.). See explicit
ex⋅ploit
2 [ik-sploit] –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to utilize, esp. for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity. |
| 2. | to use selfishly for one's own ends: employers who exploit their workers. |
| 3. | to advance or further through exploitation; promote: He exploited his new movie through a series of guest appearances. |
Origin:
1375–1425; < F exploiter, deriv. of exploit (n.); r. late ME expleiten to achieve < AF espleiter, deriv. of espleit (n.). See exploit 1
1375–1425; < F exploiter, deriv. of exploit (n.); r. late ME expleiten to achieve < AF espleiter, deriv. of espleit (n.). See exploit 1
Related forms:
ex⋅ploit⋅a⋅ble, adjective
ex⋅ploit⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
ex⋅ploit⋅a⋅tive, ex⋅ploit⋅a⋅to⋅ry [ik-sploi-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , ex⋅ploit⋅ive, adjective
[ik-sploi-tuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , ex⋅ploit⋅ive, adjective ex⋅ploit⋅er, noun
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| ex·ploit (ěk'sploit', ĭk-sploit') n. An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat1. tr.v. (ĭk-sploit', ěk'sploit') ex·ploit·ed, ex·ploit·ing, ex·ploits
[Middle English, from Old French esploit, from Latin explicitum, neuter past participle of explicāre, to unfold; see explicate.] ex·ploit'a·bil'i·ty n., ex·ploit'a·ble adj., ex·ploit'a·tive, ex·ploit'ive adj., ex·ploit'a·tive·ly, ex·ploit'ive·ly adv., ex·ploit'er n. |
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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] 3. Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon. [Recent] In no sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employ['e]s or make his capital "out of" anybody else. --W. G. Sumner.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : exploit
Spanish:
hazaña,
German:
die Heldentat,
Japanese:
手柄
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,
Jargon File 4.2.0
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exploit (n.)
1393, from O.Fr. esploit, a very common v., used in senses of "action, deed, profit, achievement," from L. explicitum "a thing settled, ended, displayed," neut. of explicitus, pp. of explicare "unfold" (see explicit). Sense evolution is from "unfolding" to "bringing out" to "having advantage" to "achievement." The v. (M.E. espleiten, esploiten) meant "to accomplish;" the sense of "use selfishly" first arising 1838, as an adoption of Fr. exploiter.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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exploit security
A security hole or an instance of taking advantage of a security hole.
"[...] hackers say exploit. sysadmins say hole" -- Mike Emke.
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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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