different between usurp vs pirate

English

Etymology

From Middle English usurpen, from Old French usurper, from Latin ?s?rp?.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ju?s?p/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ju??z??p/
• Rhymes: -??(?)p

Verb

usurp (third-person singular simple present usurps, present participle usurping, simple past and past participle usurped)

1. To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.
2. To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.
3. To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.
4. (obsolete) To make use of.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Appendix, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 149:

     " […] especially considering that even Matter it self, in which they tumble and wallow, which they feel with their hands and usurp with all their Senses […] "

Related terms

• usurpation
• usurper

Translations

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)