different between pirate vs filibuster

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)

1. A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

2. An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
3. 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.

4. (ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
5. 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.

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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive, intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
3. (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.

4. (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)

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. (Jersey) pirate

Old French

Etymology

From Latin p?r?ta.

Noun

pirate m (oblique plural pirates, nominative singular pirates, nominative plural pirate)

1. 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 IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (pirate, supplement)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish filibustero (“pirate”), from French flibustier, ultimately from Dutch vrijbuiter (“freebooter”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (“agent”). The alteration in the first syllable in French is due to the word being somewhat conflated with vlieboot (“light, flat-bottomed cargo vessel with two or three masts”) when it was borrowed into French or another language from Dutch. The word is cognate and analogous to English freebooter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?l?b?st?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?l?b?st?/
• Hyphenation: fi?li?bust?er

Noun

filibuster (plural filibusters)

1. A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.
2. (US politics) A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.
3. (US politics) A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.

Synonyms

• (mercenary soldier): see Thesaurus:mercenary

Antonyms

• (sense 2): cloture

Derived terms

• filibusterer

Related terms

• flibustier

Descendants

• ? Dutch: filibuster
• ? Indonesian: filibuster

Translations

Verb

filibuster (third-person singular simple present filibusters, present participle filibustering, simple past and past participle filibustered)

1. To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.
2. (originally and mainly US, politics) To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body.
   • Jan 20, 2012, “Meanwhile, back in Eastleigh, away from the filibustering in Westminster, Chris Huhne was able to concentrate on constituency business.”https://www.eastleighnews.co.uk/2012/01/daylight-saving-bill-runs-out-of-time/

Translations

Further reading

• filibuster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• flibustier

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English filibuster, from Spanish filibustero, from French flibustier, from Dutch vrijbuiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.li?b?s.t?r/
• Hyphenation: fi?li?bus?ter

Noun

filibuster m (plural filibusters)

1. (US politics) A filibuster, a tactic to delay Congressional procedures.
2. (historical) A filibuster, an American mercenary who operated in Central America or the Spanish West Indies seeking to gain wealth or political power.

Indonesian

Etymology

From English filibuster, from Spanish filibustero (“pirate”), from French flibustier, from Dutch vrijbuiter (“freebooter”), as vrij (“free”) +? buit (“booty”) +? -er (“agent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fili?b?st?r]
• Hyphenation: fi?li?bus?têr

Noun

filibustêr (first-person possessive filibusterku, second-person possessive filibustermu, third-person possessive filibusternya)

1. filibuster,
   1. a tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body.
   2. a private military action.

Further reading

• “filibuster” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.