pirate
see also: Pirate
Pronunciation
Pirate
Noun
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see also: Pirate
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpaɪ̯(ə)ɹɪt/, /ˈpaɪ̯(ə)ɹət/
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 978-0-7382-0777-3, page 178 ↗:
- And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
- 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 978-0-7382-0777-3, 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)
- (one who plunders at sea) buccaneer, corsair, see also Thesaurus:pirate
- (one who breaks intellectual property laws by copying) bootlegger
- French: pirate, corsaire
- German: Pirat, Seeräuber, Korsar
- Italian: pirata
- Portuguese: corsário, pirata, bucaneiro
- Russian: пира́т
- Spanish: pirata
- Spanish: barco pirata
pirate (pirates, present participle pirating; past and past participle pirated)
- (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, intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
- (transitive, intellectual property) 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.
- 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.
- (appropriate by piracy)
- (make illegal copy) plagiarize, counterfeit
- (engage in piracy)
- Spanish: piratear
pirate
- Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
Pirate
Noun
pirate (plural pirates)
- (sports) someone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.
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