explain

v 1: give an explanation for [syn: {explicate}]

2: state by way of explanation

3: serve as an excuse for [syn: {excuse}]

exploit

A security hole or an instance of taking advantage

of a security hole.

"[...] {hackers} say exploit. {sysadmin}s say hole"

-- {Mike Emke (http://emke.com/)}

Emke reports that the stress is on the second syllable. If

this is true, this may be a case of of hackerly zero-deriving

verbs (especially instatials) from nouns, akin to "write" as a

noun to describe an instance of a disk drive writing to a

disk.

(1997-01-31)