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filch
English
Etymology
From Middle English filchen (“to pilfer, to steal”). The further origin of the word is uncertain, but it is perhaps related to Old English fyl?ian (“to marshal troops”) and Old English ?efyl?e (“band of men, army, host”), which would make it related to folk.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: f?lch, IPA(key): /f?lt?/
- Rhymes: -?lt?
Verb
filch (third-person singular simple present filches, present participle filching, simple past and past participle filched)
- (transitive) To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:steal
Derived terms
- filched (adjective)
- filcher
- filching (noun)
Translations
Noun
filch (plural filches)
- Something which has been filched or stolen.
- An act of filching; larceny, theft.
- (obsolete) A person who filches; a filcher, a pilferer, a thief.
- (obsolete) A hooked stick used to filch objects.
Synonyms
- (act of filching): larceny, theft
- (person who filches): filcher, pilferer, thief
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pirate
English
Etymology
From Old French pirate, from Latin p?r?ta, from Ancient Greek ???????? (peirat?s), from ????? (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa??(?)??t/, /?pa??(?)??t/
Noun
pirate (plural pirates)
- A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
- 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.
- 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
Related terms
Translations
Verb
pirate (third-person singular simple present pirates, present participle pirating, simple 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.
Synonyms
- (appropriate by piracy):
- (make illegal copy): plagiarize, counterfeit
- (engage in piracy):
Translations
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.
Synonyms
- pirated
- counterfeit
Translations
See also
- Jolly Roger
- skull and crossbones
Anagrams
- eartip, pratie, pteria
Esperanto
Etymology
pirato (“a pirate”, noun) +? -e.
Adverb
pirate
- piratically
Related terms
- pirata (“piratical”)
- pirati (“to pirate”)
French
Etymology
From Old French pirate, from Latin p?r?ta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.?at/
Noun
pirate m or f (plural pirates)
- pirate
Synonyms
- boucanier m
- corsaire m
- flibustier m
Derived terms
Anagrams
- paitre, paître, parité, partie, patrie, prêtai, repait, repaît
Further reading
- “pirate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Old French pirate, from Latin p?r?ta, from Ancient Greek ???????? (peirat?s), from ????? (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”).
Noun
pirate m (plural pirates)
- (Jersey) pirate
Old French
Etymology
From Latin p?r?ta.
Noun
pirate m (oblique plural pirates, nominative singular pirates, nominative plural pirate)
- pirate (one who attacks watercraft)
Descendants
- Middle French: pirate
- French: pirate
- ? Dutch: piraat
- Norman: pirate
- ? Middle English: pirate
- English: pirate
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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