Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To wound (oneself) by biting at the breast. Used of the pelican, which was once believed to feed its young with its blood, as a heraldic motif and symbol of Christ.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To wound: in heraldry, especially said of the pelican, which is blazoned as vulning herself when represented as tearing her breast to feed her young. Compare pelican in her piety, under pelican.
Wiktionary
- n. computing, informal vulnerability (a weakness in software etc. that can be maliciously exploited)
Etymologies
- Shortening. (Wiktionary)
- From Latin vulnerāre, to wound; see vulnerable. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“IT Security is on my mind, I think I found a vuln in a common VLAN topology too, but I need to play around a bit more with it.”
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“First we target site itself. if we can't find a vuln [vulnerability]. on the script of site we try accessing server or vps [virtual private server].”
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“Or are you worried about that SSL Renegotiation vuln?”
“Bailouts to big banks and shameless corporate greed have left us with a faltering economy, a weak job market and crumbling financial system that has made workers more vuln ...”
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“But, we found in surveys, as soon as December of 2001, people saying well, maybe it's good that the Americans know what it's like to feel vuln -- be vulnerable.”
“Joined up a game, both sides vuln, down 2000 points, just helping finish the game. figured nothing would go wrong ... but wait.”
“Bridge hand of the day at pogo. both vuln, both with 60 on towards the rubber.”
“First we target site itself. if we cant find a vuln. on the script of site we try accessing server or vps.”
“One vuln was patched after Google was notified via its Chromium Security Reward program.”
“The 24kpwn vuln we found was already held onto for a few months before it leaked.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vuln’.
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Heraldica
any and all things heraldry related.
tressure, trefoil, estoile, ermine, fesse, gules, azure, bend, bendlet, escutcheon, passant guardant, or and 58 more...
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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 more...
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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Really Cool Four-Letter Words
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
ibis, pelf, sofa, iota, oboe, lava, icon, sped, puha, pulp, puma, kyat and 150 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Sample List
Samle List
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Harm, Hurt, Damage or Wound (verb)
Verbs meaning harm, hurt, damage or wound
impair, damnify, prejudice, maleficate, maleficiate, vuln, sauciate, lesion, injure, poison, envenomate, injury
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herotuesday's Words
butyraceous, thrasonical, turgid, ululate, irenic, punctilio, discombobulate, ecdysiast, formicate, favonian, agnate, erubescence and 614 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for vuln.
sionnach Pelicans in their piety
Pelicans on the roof Aug 13, 2009
reesetee Never thought of it that way, yarb, but that's true. And c_b, I have an interest, but it's mostly in the symbolism, less in the actual history (although that's also fascinating). Oct 18, 2007
yarb This shoots to #1 on my "to use in conversation or official reports" list. The trouble with these wonderful heraldry words is, they set their sights too low. I get the sense we can learn a lot from heraldry. Oct 18, 2007
chained_bear This is one whacked-out verb!
Ooh, sionnach, do please start a heraldry list someday. I started a medieval heraldry list, but I don't feel like I ever gave it due attention. It feels half done--which is silly to say of a Wordie list (aren't they all half done?). I'd like to see what others come up with.
Anyone else with an interest in heraldry out there? *raises hand* The intersection of military history and art, that's what it is. Oct 18, 2007
reesetee These days, they give birds anti-anxiety meds for that. ;-)
I've always loved that idea of the pelican symbolizing Christ. Odd, but fascinating. Oct 18, 2007
trivet Um....eeew! Oct 18, 2007
sionnach To wound (oneself) by biting at the breast. Used of the pelican, which was once believed to feed its young with its blood, as a heraldic motif and symbol of Christ.
A heraldry word, odd yet charming.
Time to start a heraldry list. As soon as I get done with an alchemy list... So many words, so little time. Oct 18, 2007