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- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- (gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (audio) The amount of time taken for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (South India) Short for heart attack.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- (wine) The initial sensory impact of a wine.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- intense adverse criticism
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- the act of attacking
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- strong criticism
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (physical chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
- take the initiative and go on the offensive
- attack someone physically or emotionally
- launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
- begin to injure
- set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
- attack in speech or writing
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
- (computing) A program or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in other software.
- An achievement.
- (by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
- A heroic or extraordinary deed.
- a notable achievement
- (computing) Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
- (computing) Of an exploit or its threat or an attack, benefiting from a newly found and yet unpatched or unmitigated flaw in software or hardware; using a zero-day vulnerability.
- (computing) Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
- (computing) A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security.
- (uncountable) The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
- (countable) A specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
- susceptibility to injury or attack
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed
- (computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.
- (computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
- (massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
- (pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
- (sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
- (UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback.
- (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
- (voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
- (Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
- (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.
- (computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
- (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- (figurative) Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
- (philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
- (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
- a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
- someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
- (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
- several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
- a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
- (computing) A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
- (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
- A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
- One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
- One who roots or rummages through something.
- (woodworking) A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
- A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
- (by extension) A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
- One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
- (computing) A method of attacking a computer program, in which the program is modified so as to appear to be working normally when in reality it has been modified with the purpose of circumventing security mechanisms.
- (computing) Falsifying one's identity or other identifying information (e.g. location) by technical means to deceive or gain access.
- (computing) Phishing.
- (computer security) A trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.
- A pot of honey.
- (chiefly British) A draw: a place which attracts visitors.
- (slang) A vulva or vagina.
- (espionage) A spy (typically attractive and female) who uses sex to trap and blackmail a target.
- A woman who attracts sexual attention from men.
- South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes
- (transitive) To breach (a security system).
- (transitive) To cause impairment of.
- (intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
- (ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
- To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
- expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute
- settle by concession
- make a compromise; arrive at a compromise
- (computer security) A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
- The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
- an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
- a middle way between two extremes
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- (computer science, of a hacker or malware) To sabotage (a computer) with intent to blackmail the owner.
- To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand.
- To hold in custody or use for any advantage.
- To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation).
- (slang, computing) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
- (India, Sri Lanka) A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.
- (slang, chiefly derogatory) Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
- (India) A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
- (computing) A piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met.
- a set of instructions inserted into a program that are designed to execute (or ‘explode’) if a particular condition is satisfied; when exploded it may delete or corrupt data, or print a spurious message, or have other harmful effects
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A control group or control experiment.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- (parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- power to direct or determine
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- discipline in personal and social activities
- (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
- (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
- handle and cause to function
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
- (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- a poor White person in the southern United States
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- (slang, chiefly British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A prawn cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A Christmas cracker.
- A firecracker.
- The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
- (computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers; commonly used on local area networks that are connected to the internet
- (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust
- a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle
- (physics) A hypothetical phenomenon where an observer falling into a black hole encounters high-energy quanta at or near the event horizon.
- (computer security) The software that monitors traffic in and out of a private network or a personal computer and allows or blocks such traffic depending on its perceived threat.
- (politics, especially Germany) An unwritten agreement among major political parties to refuse to govern or cooperate with national conservative and ultranationalist parties.
- An ethical wall; an organizational or legal separation between two entities that might otherwise cause conflicts of interest.
- (architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
- (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
- (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
- (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
- (intransitive) To become hard.
- (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
- become hard or harder
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- make hard or harder
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- make healthy
- (computer security) The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertion.
- (internal combustion engines) Fuel injection: the pressurized introduction of fuel into a cylinder.
- (set theory) A function that maps distinct x in the domain to distinct y in the codomain; formally, a f: X → Y such that f(a) = f(b) implies a = b for any a, b in the domain.
- (space science) The act of putting a spacecraft into a particular orbit, especially for changing a stable orbit into a transfer orbit, e.g. trans-lunar injection.
- The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
- (construction) The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.
- (mathematics) A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.
- (category theory) A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.
- (figuratively) The supply of additional funding to a person or a business.
- (steam engines) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
- A specimen prepared by injection.
- (medicine) Congestion (of a body part, with blood or other fluid), such as hyperemia.
- (steam engines) The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
- (medicine) Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.
- the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure
- any solution that is injected (as into the skin)
- the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
- (informal, computing) A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack.
- (informal) Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
- (informal, electronics, engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design.
- (informal, computing) An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
- a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose
- (computing, computer security, slang) A malicious hacker, one who violates computer security out of malice or for personal gain.
- (transitive, idiomatic) A villain in a story, especially in a Western (a film or other work of the Western genre).
- A Haredi Jew; a member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
- (computer security) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
- (computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
- (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
- (glassblowing) A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.
- Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- (computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.
- Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
- (British, regional) A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
- One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially (sports, originally and chiefly golf), a sport such as golf or tennis.
- Someone who hacks.
- One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
- (US, road transport) One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver.
- someone who plays golf poorly
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
- (computer security) A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.
- (politics) A person, organization, social movement, piece of legislation, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions.
- (figuratively) A subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy.
- (business) A seemingly favorable offer designed to trick customers into making exorbitant payments.
- a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst
- (computer security) The practice of tricking a user into giving, or giving access to, sensitive information, thereby bypassing most or all protection.
- (political science) Efforts to influence attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.
- (sociology) Use of numerical data to inform social programs.
- (astrophysics) A Trojan asteroid.
- (in similes) One who shows great pluck, endurance, strength, etc.
- A student (especially an athlete) of the University of Southern California.
- A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Troy.
- (astrophysics) An object residing at a Trojan point.
- (computing) Ellipsis of Trojan horse.
- a native of ancient Troy
- (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
- A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
- Alternative letter-case form of Chink.
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
- A chip or dent in something metallic.
- (countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
- A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
- a short light metallic sound
- a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
- (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
- (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- (intransitive) To crack; to open.
- (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
- fill the chinks of, as with caulking
- make or emit a high sound
- make cracks or chinks in
- (transitive, computing) To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
- (chemistry) To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
- (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
- (transitive) To cause to become much worse.
- (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
- kill with poison
- kill by its poison
- administer poison to
- spoil as if by poison
- add poison to
- (figuratively) Anything harmful to a person or thing.
- A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
- (chemistry) Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
- (informal, idiomatic) An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
- anything that harms or destroys
- any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
- a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
- a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology
- a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies
- (music, uncountable) A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.
- (countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
- (countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
- (science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
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- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- (gaming) Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (audio) The amount of time taken for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (South India) Short for heart attack.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- (wine) The initial sensory impact of a wine.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- intense adverse criticism
- an offensive move in a sport or game
- the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)
- (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase
- a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition
- the act of attacking
- ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation
- strong criticism
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (physical chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
- take the initiative and go on the offensive
- attack someone physically or emotionally
- launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with
- begin to injure
- set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task
- attack in speech or writing
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- An opening that goes all the way through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- (slang) Any bodily orifice, in particular the anus.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figurative) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (slang, derogatory) A person's mouth.
- (informal, with "the") Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (Ireland, Scotland, vulgar) A vagina.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; a dent; a depression; a fissure.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in the future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (Canada, US, historical) A mountain valley.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- a depression hollowed out of solid matter
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course
- an unoccupied space
- an opening deliberately made in or through something
- a fault
- an opening into or through something
- informal terms for the mouth
- (computing) A program or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in other software.
- An achievement.
- (by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
- A heroic or extraordinary deed.
- a notable achievement
- (computing) A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security.
- (uncountable) The state of being vulnerable; susceptibility to attack or injury, either physical or emotional; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
- (countable) A specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
- susceptibility to injury or attack
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed
- (computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.
- (computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
- (massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
- (pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
- (sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
- (UK, countable) A riding or journey on horseback.
- (computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
- (voodoo, horror) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his or her own.
- (Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
- (figuratively) An apathetic or slow-witted person.
- (computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
- (Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
- (figurative) Someone or something that should be dead but is not.
- (philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
- An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
- (figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
- A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
- a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
- someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
- (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
- several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
- a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
- (computing) A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
- (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
- A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
- One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
- One who roots or rummages through something.
- (woodworking) A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
- A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
- (by extension) A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
- One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
- (computing) A method of attacking a computer program, in which the program is modified so as to appear to be working normally when in reality it has been modified with the purpose of circumventing security mechanisms.
- (computing) Falsifying one's identity or other identifying information (e.g. location) by technical means to deceive or gain access.
- (computing) Phishing.
- (computer security) A trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.
- A pot of honey.
- (chiefly British) A draw: a place which attracts visitors.
- (slang) A vulva or vagina.
- (espionage) A spy (typically attractive and female) who uses sex to trap and blackmail a target.
- A woman who attracts sexual attention from men.
- South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes
- (computing) Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
- (computing) Of an exploit or its threat or an attack, benefiting from a newly found and yet unpatched or unmitigated flaw in software or hardware; using a zero-day vulnerability.
- (computing) Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
- (slang, computing) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
- (India, Sri Lanka) A two-wheeled ox- or horsecart used for transporting people.
- (slang, chiefly derogatory) Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
- (India) A two-wheeled oxcart used for transporting freight.
- (computing) A piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met.
- a set of instructions inserted into a program that are designed to execute (or ‘explode’) if a particular condition is satisfied; when exploded it may delete or corrupt data, or print a spurious message, or have other harmful effects
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A control group or control experiment.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- (parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- power to direct or determine
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- discipline in personal and social activities
- (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
- (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
- handle and cause to function
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
- (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- a poor White person in the southern United States
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- (slang, chiefly British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A prawn cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A Christmas cracker.
- A firecracker.
- The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
- (computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers; commonly used on local area networks that are connected to the internet
- (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust
- a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle
- (physics) A hypothetical phenomenon where an observer falling into a black hole encounters high-energy quanta at or near the event horizon.
- (computer security) The software that monitors traffic in and out of a private network or a personal computer and allows or blocks such traffic depending on its perceived threat.
- (politics, especially Germany) An unwritten agreement among major political parties to refuse to govern or cooperate with national conservative and ultranationalist parties.
- An ethical wall; an organizational or legal separation between two entities that might otherwise cause conflicts of interest.
- (architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
- (computer security) The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertion.
- (internal combustion engines) Fuel injection: the pressurized introduction of fuel into a cylinder.
- (set theory) A function that maps distinct x in the domain to distinct y in the codomain; formally, a f: X → Y such that f(a) = f(b) implies a = b for any a, b in the domain.
- (space science) The act of putting a spacecraft into a particular orbit, especially for changing a stable orbit into a transfer orbit, e.g. trans-lunar injection.
- The act of injecting, or something that is injected.
- (construction) The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.
- (mathematics) A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.
- (category theory) A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.
- (figuratively) The supply of additional funding to a person or a business.
- (steam engines) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
- A specimen prepared by injection.
- (medicine) Congestion (of a body part, with blood or other fluid), such as hyperemia.
- (steam engines) The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.
- (medicine) Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.
- the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure
- any solution that is injected (as into the skin)
- the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
- (informal, computing) A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack.
- (informal) Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
- (informal, electronics, engineering) An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before implementing a finished design.
- (informal, computing) An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts.
- a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose
- (computing, computer security, slang) A malicious hacker, one who violates computer security out of malice or for personal gain.
- (transitive, idiomatic) A villain in a story, especially in a Western (a film or other work of the Western genre).
- A Haredi Jew; a member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
- (computer security) A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
- (computer science) A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
- (informal) Any consumer electronics product.
- (glassblowing) A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.
- Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- (computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.
- Something that hacks; a device or tool for hacking; specifically, an axe used for cutting tree branches or wood.
- (British, regional) A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
- One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially (sports, originally and chiefly golf), a sport such as golf or tennis.
- Someone who hacks.
- One who cuts with heavy or rough blows.
- (US, road transport) One who operates a taxicab; a cabdriver.
- someone who plays golf poorly
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm
- (computer security) A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.
- (politics) A person, organization, social movement, piece of legislation, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions.
- (figuratively) A subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy.
- (business) A seemingly favorable offer designed to trick customers into making exorbitant payments.
- a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst
- (computer security) The practice of tricking a user into giving, or giving access to, sensitive information, thereby bypassing most or all protection.
- (political science) Efforts to influence attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.
- (sociology) Use of numerical data to inform social programs.
- (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
- A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
- Alternative letter-case form of Chink.
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
- A chip or dent in something metallic.
- (countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
- A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
- a short light metallic sound
- a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
- (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
- (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- (intransitive) To crack; to open.
- (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
- fill the chinks of, as with caulking
- make or emit a high sound
- make cracks or chinks in
- a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
- a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology
- a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies
- (music, uncountable) A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.
- (countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
- (countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
- (science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.
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- (transitive) To breach (a security system).
- (transitive) To cause impairment of.
- (intransitive) To find a way between extremes.
- (ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
- To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
- To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
- expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute
- settle by concession
- make a compromise; arrive at a compromise
- (computer security) A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself.
- The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
- A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
- an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
- a middle way between two extremes
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- (computer science, of a hacker or malware) To sabotage (a computer) with intent to blackmail the owner.
- To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand.
- To hold in custody or use for any advantage.
- To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation).
- (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
- (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
- (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
- (intransitive) To become hard.
- (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
- become hard or harder
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- make hard or harder
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- make healthy
- (transitive, computing) To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
- (chemistry) To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
- (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
- (transitive) To cause to become much worse.
- (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
- kill with poison
- kill by its poison
- administer poison to
- spoil as if by poison
- add poison to
- (figuratively) Anything harmful to a person or thing.
- A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
- (chemistry) Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
- (informal, idiomatic) An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
- anything that harms or destroys
- any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
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- (computing) Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
- (computing) Of an exploit or its threat or an attack, benefiting from a newly found and yet unpatched or unmitigated flaw in software or hardware; using a zero-day vulnerability.
- (computing) Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
- (astrophysics) A Trojan asteroid.
- (in similes) One who shows great pluck, endurance, strength, etc.
- A student (especially an athlete) of the University of Southern California.
- A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Troy.
- (astrophysics) An object residing at a Trojan point.
- (computing) Ellipsis of Trojan horse.
- a native of ancient Troy