pirate
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
copyright
intellectual-property
law
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: From Middle English pirate, pirat, pyrat, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta (“pirate”), from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".
Inflected forms:
form: pirates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pyrate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pirates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pirating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pirated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pirated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pyrate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pyrate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
pos: noun
examples: You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
gloss: An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
pos: noun
examples: How did you do it? Have you searched for hidden treasure, or discovered a pole, or done time on a pirate, or flown the Channel, or what? Where is the glamour of romance? How did you get it?
The third day out a pirate (Terebinthian by her rig) overhauled us, but when she saw us well armed she stood off after some shooting of arrows on either part—
gloss: One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China.
If we untangle the claim that technology has turned Johnny Teenager into a pirate, what turns out to be fueling it is the idea that if Johnny Teenager were to share his unauthorized copy with two million of his closest friends the effect on a record company would be pretty similar to the effect of some CD factory's creating two million CDs and selling them cheap.
gloss: A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of marble in children's games.
pos: noun
examples: Most of the time it went fine; some of his classmates had so many marbles they could have opened up their own shop in smurfs, pirates, purple aggies and pink panthers.
gloss: To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
gloss: To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If a book is pirated there is a remedy for the author and publisher; if a photograph or an engraving is made of a picture without permission the law protects the painter.
gloss: To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate, movies, music, software, and TV programs.
gloss: To engage in piracy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
gloss: To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
pos: verb
tags: Philippines
intransitive
transitive
gloss: Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: buccaneer
corsair
freebooter
picaroon
pirate
raider
reaver
sea rat
sea-robber
sea rover
Related words: arr
blackjack
black spot
booty
go on the account
Jolly Roger
letter of marque
matey
pirate articles
pirate round
shiver my timbers
skull and crossbones
treasure chest
walk the gangplank
walk the plank
yo-ho-ho
Derived words: air pirate
antipirate
archpirate
arch-pirate
bee pirate
biopirate
butt pirate
cyberpirate
land pirate
minute pirate bug
piracy
piratable
pirate articles
pirate bug
piratebush
pirated
pirate library
piratelike
pirately
pirate perch
pirate radio
pirate round
pirate ship
pirateship
pirate shirt
pirate spider
piratess
pirateware
piratey
piratic
piratical
piratism
poo pirate
porch pirate
puddle pirate
unpirateable
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