exploit

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
“
To the mob his exploit was apparently without immediate significance.

View all »
Definitions (17)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (4)

  1. noun An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. See Synonyms at feat1.
  2. transitive verb To employ to the greatest possible advantage: exploit one's talents.
  3. transitive verb To make use of selfishly or unethically: a country that exploited peasant labor. See Synonyms at manipulate.
1 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (8)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (4)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • He begins his posting as follows I have successfully implemented this attack against a 3.12 server, the exploit is available on my web page in the Novell section. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 23 -- An Introduction to Breaching a Server Internally
  • Thanks, I was mainly wondering when the fix would become available for the general user, waiting for KaiRo then. therube wrote: Also note that the exploit has been around for a number of months now.
  • Noobs keep thinking it's a Firefox exploit, which is ridiculous because Mozilla would have patched it a week ago if it was. —  meandering wildly
  • They have not denied that there is a possible exploit, which is wise, because this category of exploit is certainly possible. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • Current research includes an attempt to apply artificial intelligence to analyse the incoming data and deduce what the exploit is attempting to do; a grid computing implementation allowing a large "federated" set of honeypots to be set up and controlled together and an investigation of wireless and mobile exploits. —  Computerworld
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 212 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

feat ·  achievement ·  adventure ·  deed ·  enterprise ·  doings ·  prowess ·  expedition ·  undertake ·  valour ·  exertion ·  episode

Used in the same contextWord Family

exploit:   exploits ·  exploiting ·  exploited
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, from Old French esploit, from Latin explicitum, neuter past participle of explicāre, to unfold; see explicate.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from Middle English *exploit, esploit (also expleit, espleit, explait, esplait: see explait), advantage, achievement, from Old French esploit, esploict, earlier espleit, expleit, an exploit, action, deed, an execution of or upon a judgment, a seizure, the possession or using of a thing, also revenue, profit, etc., modern F. exploit, an exploit, etc., a writ, = Provencal esplec, espleg, espleit, espley, masculine, esplecha, feminine, from Middle Latin *explictum, plural explicta, also (altered partly in imitation of the Old French, and partly by merging with L. expletus, past participle of explere) expletum, expletus, expleytus, etc., a judicial act, writ, execution, seizure, revenue, profit, products of land (esplees, q. v.), contr. of Latin explicitum, neuter of Latin explicitus, past participle of explicare, unfold, display, arrange, settle, adjust, regulate, etc.: see explicate, and cf. plait, pleat.
  2. from Middle English *exploiten, esploiten, also *expleiten, espleiten (see explait), from Old French esploiter, later exploicter, earlier espleiter, perform, despatch, execute, achieve, etc., modern F. exploiter, cultivate, farm, work, grow, etc., = Provencal expleitar, explectar, espleyar, explechar, from Middle Latin explectare, explictare, execute: from the noun.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ɛksˈplɔɪt/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a week.

Recently looked up

nevah · velo · ter-morrer · Fluke · lexicography

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence