(n.) A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.
(n.) Combat; war.
(n.) To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion.
(n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects who reported incidents of childhood sexual exploitation had lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression than the comparison group.
(2) Using a novel method for joining DNA sequences, we have exploited this difference between the two enzymes to identify the regions of the RT that contribute to the compounds' inhibitory activities.
(3) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(4) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(5) The system is being exploited by population specialists, demographers, medical demographers and epidemiologists, both nationally and internationally, both for analytical purposes and as part of health monitoring systems.
(6) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
(7) The publicity surrounding the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which triggered the resignation of Shaun Wright, the previous PCC, did not translate into a high turnout, with only 14.65% of the electorate casting a vote.
(8) We examined the effects of newly exploited amiloride analogs on protein phosphorylation and serotonin secretion in human platelets.
(9) To date, these new and interesting capabilities have scarcely been exploited.
(10) The biosensor exploits the unique specificity of biological recognition events by coupling an enzyme, antibody or other biorecognition species to a transducing device.
(11) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
(12) In the area of injection imaging, both antigen-specific and non-specific properties of antibodies have been successfully exploited in imaging studies.
(13) However, this remarkable property of "internal imagery" has not been exploited for structural investigation at the molecular level.
(14) Undeterred, the new coach, who also had the expanded recruitment role of general manager, began to exploit Beckham’s strengths, particularly his long passing, while compensating for his increasing loss of mobility by pairing him deep in midfield with the industrious, ball-winning Brazilian Juninho.
(15) To exploit this advantage fully we also developed new reagents for the genetic and molecular manipulation of P. pastoris.
(16) We are investigating if they are being exploited through labour and sexually.” Those held in Cara di Mineo describe being deprived of vital services.
(17) May’s rhetoric against the Labour leader appeared to have toughened significantly, underlining the Conservatives’ determination to exploit what they regard as Corbyn’s weaknesses.
(18) This review introduces the multidisciplinary subject of biotechnology and the exploitation of the 'biomolecule'.
(19) They were not oleophobe fanatics here to attack the Petrobras, nor Oil Firsters, here to kill him, his colleagues and all those who came to investigate or exploit, in their parlance, the visitations.
(20) 8.22pm BST 42 mins Now it's a US corner and a chance to exploit the German zonal marking.
Feat
Definition:
(n.) An act; a deed; an exploit.
(n.) A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.
(v. t.) To form; to fashion.
(n.) Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(2) Ant and Dec were also double winners, repeating their feat of last year, winning best entertainment programme and best entertainment performance for their ITV show, Saturday Night Takeaway.
(3) But the fact Yellen is even being considered is a feat in itself as central banking is still an old boy’s club, Cooper adds: The new Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney may have assuaged feminists with his choice of Jane Austen for the ten pound note, but his Monetary Policy Committee is female free.
(4) A year later he repeats the feat in a hot air balloon.
(5) In this manner the society succeeded in attracting many thousands of workers to its meetings and worked without openly alienating employers, trade unions, the government, or the medical profession--a remarkable feat of diplomacy.
(7) Mexico were indebted to a remarkable goalkeeping display when they shared the points with Brazil, and though Guillermo Ochoa’s stock has risen dramatically since that game, he might not be able to repeat the feat twice in a row.
(8) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(9) His record-breaking feat of scoring in 11 consecutive matches is the jewel in what will surely be Leicester’s Premier League crown.
(10) Anyone care to suggest how such a cognitive feat might be achieved, other than advising Wenger to feed his team mind-altering drugs?
(11) Track listing: What Goes Boom Greens and Blues Indie Cindy Bagboy Magdalena 318 Silver Snail Blue Eyed Hexe Ring the Bell Another Toe in the Ocean Andro Queen Snakes Jaime Bravo Track listing for Live in the USA (feat Lenchantin on bass): Bone Machine Hey Ana Magdalena 318 Snakes Indie Cindy I’ve Been Tired Head On The Sad Punk Distance Equals Rate Times Time Something Against You Isla de Encanta Planet of Sound Reading this on mobile?
(12) Can he make it four from four (equalling the feat of Colombian winger James Rodriguez, who is on a similar mission right now)?
(13) Whereas near superhuman feats by ordinary individuals caught in life-threatening situations have been reported, variations of great magnitude are unlikely in sport.
(14) The chancellor comes to the despatch box, his face stern and manner sober, to present a vision of the economic and fiscal future comprised of nothing more solid than a series of heroic assumptions, hypothetical figures and feats of creative accountancy – all anchored in the shifting, hopeful sands of forecast and projection.
(15) If no contestant achieves the feat, Vote Leave is guaranteeing to pay £50,000 to the person who gets the most consecutive forecasts correct.
(16) The purpose of this publication is to describe a method by which this feat has been achieved in 150 pound ungulates undergoing prolonged cardiopulmonary bypass.
(17) For Trump, America will be great again when it is responsible to no one, when it can bend neighbors to its will through magic feats of negotiation, when its military abandons all remaining ethical standards, when it defers its problems to a messianic strongman.
(18) The structure is renowned across the world as an incredible feat of engineering so it was a fitting choice for a ground-breaking new banknote."
(19) The company said it will attempt a second feat: landing the booster on a floating platform at sea, part of a quest to reuse rockets and lower the cost of spaceshots.
(20) In 1978 she scored her first US chart-topping single, with a version of Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park, and repeated the feat with Hot Stuff, Bad Girls and No More Tears (Enough Is Enough).