different between exploit vs emprise

English

Etymology

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

Pronunciation

• (noun) enPR: ?ks'ploit, IPA^(key): /??kspl??t/
• (verb) enPR: ?ksploit', IPA^(key): /?ks?pl??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

exploit (plural exploits)

1. A heroic or extraordinary deed.
2. An achievement.

3. (computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
   • 2004, Rob Shein, Zero-Day Exploit: Countdown to Darkness, Syngress (?ISBN), page xxi:

     One of the more publicized cases that involved a zero-day exploit concerned the compromise of some U.S. military web servers. The attack involved exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in a core Windows component; […]

   • 2015, Joxean Koret, Elias Bachaalany, The Antivirus Hacker's Handbook (page 148)

     For example, you can create PE files that are valid PDF exploits or valid ZIP files, valid JPG files, and so on.

Translations

Verb

exploit (third-person singular simple present exploits, present participle exploiting, simple past and past participle exploited)

1. (transitive) To use for one’s own advantage.

   Synonyms: take advantage of, use

2. (transitive) To forcibly deprive someone of something to which she or he has a natural right.

Translations

Anagrams

• Polexit, ex-pilot

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

Alternative forms

• exploot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks?plo?t/

Noun

exploit n (plural exploiten, diminutive exploitje n)

1. (law) A legal document which proves that another document has been handed over to a certain person.

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: eksploit

Etymology 2

From English exploit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??kspl?i?t/

Noun

exploit m (plural exploits, diminutive exploitje n)

1. (computing) exploit

French

Etymology

Deverbal of exploiter. Corresponds with Old French espleit; cf. Latin explicitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k.splwa/

Noun

exploit m (plural exploits)

1. exploit, feat

Synonyms

• performance

Related terms

• exploitable
• exploitant
• exploitation
• exploiter
• exploiteur

Descendants

• ? Italian: exploit

Further reading

• “exploit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French exploit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eks?plwa/

Noun

exploit m (invariable)

1. exploit, feat

   Synonyms: impresa, performance, prestazione

Further reading

• exploit in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle French

Noun

exploit m (plural exploits)

1. use; usage

Related terms

• exploiter

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English exploit.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eks.?pl?jt??/

Noun

exploit m (plural exploits)

1. (computer security) exploit (security vulnerability in a computer system)

English

Alternative forms

• emprize

Etymology

From Old French emprise, emprinse, from Late Latin *imprensa, from Latin in- + prehendere (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p?a?z/

Noun

emprise (plural emprises)

1. (archaic) An enterprise or endeavor, especially a quest or adventure.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     noble minds of yore allyed were, / In braue poursuit of cheualrous emprize, / That none did others safety despize […]

   • 1833, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Coplas de Manrique

     the deeds of love and high emprise

   • 1900, William Archer, America To-Day, Observations & Reflections, page 181:

     Nothing short of an imperative sense of duty could tempt me to set forth on that most perilous emprise, a discussion of the American language.

2. (archaic) The qualities which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits; chivalric prowess.

Verb

emprise (third-person singular simple present emprises, present participle emprising, simple past and past participle emprised)

1. (obsolete) To undertake.

Anagrams

• empires, epimers, imprese, permies, premies, premise, spireme

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p?iz/

Noun

emprise f (plural emprises)

1. expropriation
2. domination, control, influence

Further reading

• “emprise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Noun

emprise f (oblique plural emprises, nominative singular emprise, nominative plural emprises)

1. enterprise; undertaking; activity

Derived terms

• emprisier

Descendants

• ? English: emprise
• French: emprise

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (emprise)