Verb

(en verb)

To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.

We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.

* Macaulay

A noxious drug had been administered to him.

To apportion out.

* Spectator

A fountain administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.

* Macaulay

Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.

* Philips

[Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.

To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.

* Alexander Pope

For forms of government let fools contest: / Whate'er is best administered is best.

To minister (to).

administering to the sick

(legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

To tender, as an oath.

* Shakespeare

Swear to keep the oath that we administer .

Verb

(en verb)

To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.

The nurse injected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.

To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.

Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.

* Milton

Caesar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.

To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.

Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.

to inject the blood vessels

To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.

It's been a week since I stopped injecting , and I'm still in withdrawal.

(computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.

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, year=1996 , monthday=November 11 , author=David Taillé , email=taille@calva.net , title=Getting Process information , id=MPG.cf15f0a5cfb22c3989699@news.calvacom.fr , group=comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 citation

Yes, you'll have to use CreateRemoteThread to "inject code" if you want information like the current directory of a process (at least on NT 3.5x).

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, year=1999 , monthday=August 23 , author=Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein , email=osvaldo@visionnaire.com.br , title=Java is Going to Be the Death of Java , id=001b01beed13$76a66350$450510ac@mde.emn.fr , group=comp.lang.java.advocacy citation

As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes to inject code, it's going to be a disaster.

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, year=2003 , author=Ryan Russell , title=Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box , chapter=The Thief No One Saw citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=146 , passage=A quick test to see if I can inject SQL data is to enter my username and password as 'a.}}

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, year=2007 , author=Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen , title=XSS Attacks: Cross-Site Scripting Exploits and Defense , chapter=XSS Theory citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=86 , passage=DOM XSS is an unusual method for injecting JavaScript into a user's browser.}}

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, year=2010 , author=Andrew Moore , title=Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One for Dummies , chapter=AJAX Explained: What It Does and Why You Should Consider Using It citation , isbn=9780470539439 , page=410 , passage=The AJAX controls inject the appropriate JavaScript code into the HTML output stream without you needing to code any JavaScript yourself.}}

(obsolete) To cast or throw; used with on .

* Alexander Pope

And mound inject on mound.