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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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steal
English
Etymology
From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelan? (compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla,Norwegian stjele); see below for more.
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?l, IPA(key): /sti?l/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Homophones: steel, stele
Verb
steal (third-person singular simple present steals, present participle stealing, simple past stole, past participle stolen or (nonstandard, colloquial) stole)
- (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
- "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
- (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind too often from its steady pursuit of any subject.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place
- Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, […] and do not think to steal it.
- (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
- (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:
- "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:
- (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- (sports, transitive) To dispossess
- (informal, transitive) To borrow for a short moment.
Synonyms
- (to illegally take possession of): See Thesaurus:steal
- (to secretly move): sneak
Antonyms
- (acquire licitly) receive, purchase, buy, earn
- (provide freely) donate, bestow, grant
Troponyms
- shoplift
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- burglarize
- burgle
- confiscate
- pickpocket
- pilfer
- steal away
Noun
steal (plural steals)
- The act of stealing.
- A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
- At this price, this car is a steal.
- (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- (baseball) A stolen base.
- (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
Synonyms
- (merchandise available at a very attractive price): (great / real / very good) bargain
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla
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