Exploit

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. --Shak.
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     2. Combat; war. [Obs.]
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              He made haste to exploit some warlike service.
                                                    --Holland.
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     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]
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     3. Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate
        on; to put upon. [Recent]
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              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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exploit
       n : a notable achievement; "he performed a great deed"; "the
           book was her finest effort" [syn: {deed}, {feat}, {effort}]
       v 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "exploit":
     abuse, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta,
     action, adventure, apply, aristeia, attainment, beguile,
     benefit from, bestow, bleed, bleed white, blow, bold stroke,
     capitalize on, cash in on, clip, coup, cultivate, dealings, deed,
     do, doing, doings, drain, effort, employ, emprise, endeavor,
     enterprise, exercise, fait accompli, feat, finesse, fleece, gest,
     go, gouge, hand, handiwork, handle, heroic act, hold up, ill-use,
     impose, impose upon, improve, improve the occasion, job, jockey,
     make capital of, make hay, make use of, maneuver, manipulate,
     measure, milk, misuse, move, operation, overcharge, overprice,
     overt act, overtax, passage, performance, play, play on,
     presume upon, proceeding, production, profit by, profiteer,
     put to advantage, res gestae, screw, skin, soak, step, stick,
     sting, stroke, stunt, suck dry, surcharge, swindle,
     take advantage of, thing, thing done, tour de force, trade on,
     transaction, turn, turn to account, turn to profit, turn to use,
     undertaking, use, use ill, use to advantage, utilize, venture,
     victimize, work, work on, work upon, works
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  exploit
       
           A security hole or an instance of taking advantage
          of a security hole.
       
          "[...] {hackers} say exploit. {sysadmins} say hole"
          -- {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)