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honeypot

(ˈhʌnɪˌpɒt)
n
1. a container for honey
2. something which attracts people in great numbers: Cornwall is a honeypot for tourists.
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Noun1.honeypot - South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes
genus Protea - type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs
protea - any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones
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Translations

honeypot

[ˈhʌnɪpɒt] Nmielera f
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References in classic literature ?
So was the plum pudding, which melted in one's mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot. Everything turned out well, which was a mercy, Hannah said, "For my mind was that flustered, Mum, that it's a merrycle I didn't roast the pudding, and stuff the turkey with raisins, let alone bilin' of it in a cloth."
"It's time to close this "honeypot" for officials," Tokayev says.
Officers were called at 11.08pm to Honeypot Lane, near the Honeypot Medical Centre, on Friday (August 23).
'In addition, while traditional spy craft has often relied on the 'honeypot trap'-a Mata Hari mistress to extract secrets during pillow talk or a lady of the night to put potential marks into compromising positions-China's virtual spymasters are now using a new variety of digital honeypots to hijack data from computers,' they said.
Peralta and Holt clash over the merits of the latter's new assistant and discover that a honeypot has been sent into the precinct by Kelly to seduce Holt and publicly embarrass him.
Summary: Sophos has announced the findings of its report, Exposed: Cyberattacks on Cloud Honeypots, which revealed that cybercriminals attacked one of the cloud server honeypots in the study within 52 seconds of the honeypot going live in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
And the number of carers under 17 has risen by 100,000 to 800,000 since 2010, says kids charity Honeypot. Each spends on average 30 hours a week on chores such as cleaning, shopping and giving medication to sick parents or siblings.
According to F-Secure's honeypot data, Russia, the US, China, the Netherlands and Germany targeted India with 436,090 attacks.
In this work, we developed a honeypot named HoneyThing to monitor and detect attacks on CPE devices.
The IDF has uncovered another Hamas network posing as attractive young women on social networks to honeypot soldiers, this time on Instagram, to access as much information and intelligence on the army that they can.
Honeypot House is on the market for a guide price of PS795,000.