different between hacker vs hacking

English

Etymology

From Middle English hakker, hackere, hakkere, equivalent to hack +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hæk?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æk?(r)

Noun

hacker (plural hackers)

1. (computing) One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
   • 1984, Venture, volume 6, part 1, page 142:

     A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled. Three "diskzines" — magazines on floppy disks — started cheaply by entrepreneurs who placed ads in obscure computer journals […]
2. (computing) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks.

   Synonym: (outside US) cracker

   • 2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace

     Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender.

3. (computing) A computer security professional.
4. Something that hacks; a tool or device for hacking.
   • 1825?, "Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder", in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters, page 231:

     Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat: that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall, and kicked her in the belly: that afterwards she picked her up, and beat her with the hacker on the side of the head; wiped the blood off with a dish-clout, and took her up to bed after she was dead.

   • July 1846, John Macleod, "The Tar and Turpentine Business of North Carolina", on page 15 of the Monthly Journal of Agriculture, volume II, number 1:

     When the dipping is thus over, the next work is to "chip" or scarify the tree immediately over the box [...]. This is done by an instrument usually called a "hacker," sometimes "shave." Its form is somewhat like a "round shave," narrowing at the cutting place to the diameter of an inch, with a shank, to be fixed securely into a strong, heavy handle of about two feet in length, while the faces of the trees are low, but the handle is made longer as years advance the faces higher.

   • 1877, Reports and Awards of the United States Centennial Commission (regarding the) International Exhibition, 1876 (Francis A. Walker, editor), Reports on Awards, Group XXI, page 13:

     23. George C. howard, Philadelphia, U.S.

     GRINDSTONE HACKER.

     Report.--Commended for the contrivance of an instrument, called a "hacker," that is used in trimming grindstones. This hacker turns with the stone, and is drawn across in a slide rest, and fulfills its important function satisfactorily.

5. (Britain, regional) A fork-shaped tool used to harvest root vegetables.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Chapter 43,^[2]

     The upper half of each turnip had been eaten off by the live-stock, and it was the business of the two women to grub up the lower or earthy half of the root with a hooked fork called a hacker, that it might be eaten also.

   • 1893, George Edward Dartnell and Edward Hungerford Goddard, A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Wiltshire, London: English Dialect Society, p. 72,^[3]

     […] a ‘tater-hacker,’ an old three-grained garden-fork, which by bending down the tines or ‘grains’ at right angles to the handle has been converted into something resembling a rake, but used as a hoe.

6. Someone who hacks.
   1. Particularly, one who cuts with rough or heavy blows.
      • 1902, Our Wonderful Progress, Trumbull White (editor), page 623–624:

        In January or February the "hacker," with his keen-bladed ax, begins the round which ends the season. [...] About a quart of sap is taken from each box by means of the trowel-shaped scoop used by the dipper, and then the hacker comes along and starts the flow afresh by wounding the tree again.

   2. Particularly, one who kicks wildly or roughly.
   3. Particularly, one who is consistent and focuses on accomplishing a task or several tasks.
7. (US) One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially a sport such as golf or tennis.
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, 2005, Chapter 4, p. 108,^[4]

     And then Billy was a middle-aged optometrist again, playing hacker’s golf this time—on a blazing summer Sunday morning.

8. (US) One who operates a taxicab.

Usage notes

• There are significantly more meanings of the word within the United States than in other English speaking nations.
• The use of the word hacker to indicate a person who displays skill, particularly with computers, may be misunderstood as implying the narrow meaning of unauthorised intrusion into electronic systems (also known as a cracker or occasionally black hat). This serious misunderstanding in the field of computer expertise is perhaps particularly common outside the United States.
• Some computer enthusiasts object to the use of hacker for a person who breaks into computer systems, preferring cracker for this sense.
• Most recently there has been a tendency to use hacker in a positive sense in other domains: growth hacker, food hacker, sex hacker, etc.

Descendants

Translations

Further reading

• hacker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hacker's dictionary definition of hacker US only
• RFC1392 - Internet Users' Glossary, Jan 1993

References

Czech

Etymology

English hacker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???kr?]

Noun

hacker m

1. hacker (one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks)

Derived terms

• hackerský
• hackerství

Further reading

• hacker in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hacker, equivalent to hacke +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ha???]

Noun

hacker

1. (computing) hacker

Declension

Verb

hacker

1. present of hacke

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English hacker.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /???.k?r)/
• Hyphenation: hac?ker
• Rhymes: -?k?r

Noun

hacker m (plural hackers)

1. A hacker.

Related terms

• hack
• hacken

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From English hacker.

Noun

hacker m (plural hackers)

1. (computing) hacker

   Synonym: hackeur

Etymology 2

English hack +? -er

Verb

hacker

1. (computing) To hack

Conjugation

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• hekker

Etymology

Borrowed from English hacker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?k??r]
• Hyphenation: ha?cker
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

hacker (plural hackerek)

1. (computing) hacker (one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer)
2. (computing) hacker (one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English hacker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha.ke?/

Noun

hacker m, f (plural hackers)

1. (computing) hacker (one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer)
2. (computing) hacker (one who uses a computer to gain unauthorised access to data)

Derived terms

• hackear

Spanish

Noun

hacker m or f (plural hackers or hacker)

1. Alternative form of hácker

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæk??/

Etymology 1

From Middle English *hackynge, hackande, hakand, equivalent to hack +? -ing.

Adjective

hacking (comparative more hacking, superlative most hacking)

1. Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.

   A hacking cough. A hacking laugh. A hacking breath. A hacking cry.

Usage notes

Most non-creative collocations are the phrases given as examples.

Derived terms

• hacking cough
• hackingly

Translations

Verb

hacking

1. present participle of hack

Etymology 2

From Middle English hackynge, hakkynge, hacckinge, equivalent to hack +? -ing.

Noun

hacking (usually uncountable, plural hackings)

1. (computing) Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
2. (computing) Unauthorized attempts to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network. See also cracker.
3. (pathology) A dry coughing; the emission of a succession of short coughs.
4. (sports, chiefly American football, soccer, rugby) A kick in the shins.
5. (massage) The act of striking the muscles with the side of the hand.
6. (Britain, countable) A riding or journey on horseback.
7. (obsolete) The operation of working over the faces of rough or worn grindstones with a hack-hammer.
8. (obsolete, masonry) The separation of a course of stones into two smaller courses, when there are not enough large stones to form a single course.
9. (obsolete, gem-cutting) The cuts and grooves made in the metal laps by holding the cutting edge of a steel blade against them while in motion, for the purpose of providing receptacles or pockets for the powders using in cutting and polishing gems.
10. (obsolete, brick-making) The piling of bricks for drying.

Derived terms

• hacking coat, hacking jacket, hacking-seat
• hacking run

Translations

See also

• pirate

References

• hacking in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “hacking” in Harrap's Shorter, 2006, p. 416
• “hacking” in Concise English Dictionary, Wordsworth, 2007, p. 405
• “hacking” at Wordnik

Anagrams

• ka-ching, kaching

French

Noun

hacking m (plural hackings)

1. hacking

Spanish

Noun

hacking m (uncountable)

1. (computing) hacking