pirate
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Etymology
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From Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pirate (plural pirates)
- A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
- You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
- An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
- One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission
- 2001, unidentified insider, quoted in John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 178:
- And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
- 2004, David Lubar, Dunk, page 20:
- 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.
- 2008, Martha Vicinus, Caroline Eisner, Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age, page 21:
- 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.
- 2001, unidentified insider, quoted in John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 178:
- (ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
- A kind of marble in children's games.
- 1999, Abdelkader Benali, Susan Massotty, Wedding by the Sea (page 60)
- 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.
- 1999, Abdelkader Benali, Susan Massotty, Wedding by the Sea (page 60)
Synonyms
- (one who plunders at sea): buccaneer, corsair, see also Thesaurus:pirate
- (one who breaks intellectual property laws by copying): bootlegger
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Verb
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- (transitive) To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.
- They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
- (transitive, copyright law) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
- (transitive, copyright law) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of
- Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
- 2002, John Sayle Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, page 343
- In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
- 2004, Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing
- College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
- 2007, Diane Kresh, Council on Library and Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook, page 85
- Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate, movies, music, software, and TV programs.
- (intransitive) To engage in piracy.
- He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
Synonyms
- (appropriate by piracy):
- (make illegal copy): plagiarize, counterfeit
- (engage in piracy):
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Adjective
pirate (comparative more pirate, superlative most pirate)
- Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
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Anagrams
Esperanto
Etymology
pirato (“a pirate”, noun) + -e.
Adverb
pirate
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French
Etymology
From Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta.
Pronunciation
Noun
pirate m or f (plural pirates)
Synonyms
- boucanier m
- corsaire m
- flibustier m
Derived terms
Anagrams
External links
- “pirate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”).
Noun
pirate m (plural pirates)
Old French
Etymology
Noun
pirate oblique singular, m (oblique plural pirates, nominative singular pirates, nominative plural pirate)
- pirate (one who attacks watercraft)
Descendants
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pirate, supplement)
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