Pirate

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pirate \Pi"rate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pirated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Pirating}.] [Cf. F. pirater.]
     To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Pirate \Pi"rate\, v. t.
     To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of
     the author.
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           They advertised they would pirate his edition. --Pope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pirate \Pi"rate\, n. [L. pirata, Gr. ?, fr. ? to attempt,
     undertake, from making attempts or attacks on ships, ? an
     attempt, trial; akin to E. peril: cf. F. pirate. See
     {Peril}.]
     1. A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes
        the property of another on the high seas; especially, one
        who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or
        plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in
        a harbor.
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     2. An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal
        commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on
        the high seas.
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     3. One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the
        work of an author without permission.
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     {Pirate perch} (Zool.), a fresh-water percoid fish of the
        United States ({Aphredoderus Sayanus}). It is of a dark
        olive color, speckled with blackish spots.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pirate
       n 1: someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they
            were his own [syn: {plagiarist}, {plagiarizer}, {plagiariser},
             {literary pirate}]
       2: someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea
          without having a commission from any sovereign nation
          [syn: {buccaneer}, {sea robber}, {sea rover}]
       3: a ship manned by pirates [syn: {pirate ship}]
       v 1: copy illegally; of published material
       2: take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the
          plane and flew it to Miami" [syn: {commandeer}, {hijack},
          {highjack}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "pirate":
     AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook,
     Captain Kidd, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte,
     Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman,
     adopt, air pirate, airplane hijacker, appropriate, assume,
     bluejacket, borrow, buccaneer, copy, copyright infringer, corsair,
     crib, cribber, deep-sea man, derive from, fair-weather sailor,
     filibuster, fisherman, freeboot, freebooter, hearty, imitate,
     infringe, infringe a copyright, infringer, jack, jack afloat,
     jack-tar, jacky, lift, limey, literary pirate, lobsterman,
     make use of, mariner, matelot, mock, navigator, picaroon, pinch,
     plagiarist, plagiarize, plagiarizer, poach, privateer, raider,
     reproduce, rover, sailor, salt, sea, sea dog, sea king, sea rover,
     seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, simulate, skyjacker,
     steal, take, take on, take over, tar, viking, water dog, whaler,
     windjammer, windsailor
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  pirate
       
          {software pirate}
       
       

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PIRATE. A sea robber, who, to enrich himself by subtlety or open force, 
  setteth upon merchants and others trading by sea, despoiling them of their 
  loading, and sometimes bereaving them of life and, sinking their ships; 
  Ridley's View of the Civ. and Eccl. Law, part 2, c. 1, s. 8; or more 
  generally one guilty of the crime of piracy. Merl. Repert. h.t. See, for the 
  etymology of this word, Bac. Ab. Piracy