sniffer
pronunciation
How to pronounce sniffer in British English:
UK [s'nɪfər]
How to pronounce sniffer in American English:
US [s'nɪfər]
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- Noun:
- a person who sniffs
Word Origin
- sniffer (n.)
- "the nose," 1858, agent noun from sniff (v.).
Example
- 1. Dr butt 's new device is an oestrogen sniffer .
- 2. Equipped with 14 different types of conductive polymers the synthetic sniffer can distinguish between infections caused by e.coli staph and proteus parasites .
- 3. The theory is that it doesn 't matter if a hacker is running a password sniffer , since the password won 't work a second time .
- 4. But if you are using facebook over an unencrypted wireless access point at a coffee shop or airport , someone running a packet sniffer on a laptop could steal your authentication cookie out of the air and then log into facebook as you .
- 5. Masked naval officers cut open more than 20 carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a cargo ship in a container port in the state of yucatan . X-ray machines and sniffer drugs led them to the stash .