What's the difference between exploit and risk?

Exploit


Definition:

  • (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.

Risk


Definition:

  • (n.) Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
  • (n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
  • (n.) To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication.
  • (n.) To incur the risk or danger of; as, to risk a battle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
  • (2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
  • (3) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (4) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
  • (5) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (6) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
  • (7) An application is made to the validity of cancer risk items included in a cancer registry.
  • (8) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (9) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (10) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
  • (11) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
  • (12) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
  • (13) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
  • (14) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (15) When pooled data were analysed, this difference was highly significant (p = 0.0001) with a relative risk of schizophrenia in homozygotes of 2.61 (95% confidence intervals 1.60-4.26).
  • (16) In addition, pathological dexamethasone-tests may indicate an increased suicide-risk in these patients.
  • (17) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
  • (18) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
  • (19) Epidemiological studies on low risks involve a number of major methodological difficulties.
  • (20) There appears to be no risk of morbidity or mortality.

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