Verb

(penetrat)

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.

Light penetrates darkness.

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(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.

I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.

* Ray

things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate

To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.

to penetrate one's heart with pity

* M. Arnold

The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.

(Shakespeare)

To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.

To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)

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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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=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.