Exploit vs Exert - What's the difference?
exploit | exert |
A heroic or extraordinary deed.
An achievement.
(computing) A program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software.
To put in vigorous action.
To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
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As verbs the difference between exploit and exert
is that exploit is to use for one’s own advantage while exert is to put in vigorous action.As a noun exploit
is a heroic or extraordinary deed.exploit
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(en noun)Synonyms
* take advantage of,exert
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(en verb)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona, passage=Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.}}