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Pirate
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- 1 Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself. not-comparable
- 1 A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
"You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates."
- 2 someone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- 3 a ship that is manned by pirates wordnet
- 4 An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
"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—"
- 5 someone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.; someone connected with Bristol Rovers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
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- 6 someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation wordnet
- 7 One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission. broadly
"And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies."
- 8 someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were their own wordnet
- 9 A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
- 10 A kind of marble in children's games.
"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."
- 1 To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea. transitive
"They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo."
- 2 take arbitrarily or by force wordnet
- 3 To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of. transitive
"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."
- 4 copy illegally; of published material wordnet
- 5 To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of. transitive
"Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy."
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- 6 To engage in piracy. intransitive
"He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen."
- 7 To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own. Philippines, intransitive, transitive
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".
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".
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".
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