Definition of pirate in English:

pirate

noun ˈpʌɪrətˈpaɪrət

1A person who attacks and robs ships at sea.
as modifier a pirate ship
Example sentencesExamples
- The tugboat, carrying eight Japanese and six Filipino crew members, was attacked by armed pirates.
- She worried about them and what would happen if the islanders caught the pirate crew.
- Like I was a pirate on the sea again, with everything right.
- But immediately after, another group of pirates attacked the same ship.
- No, it was the other pirates who kidnapped her.
- Then together we will be the most fearsome pirates on the sea.
- Just then four other pirate ships began to approach them.
- The ship was named for an infamous pirate from the eighteenth century.
- Pearl scurried about the deck, searching the pirate crew to find the captain.
- Rys's father, William Rose, had been one of the best and most feared pirates on every sea.
- The notorious pirate who sailed the seven seas without once being caught!
- Last year, Johnny Depp played a pirate sailing the high seas.
- We are originally from Wales, you see, but we came from England and were sailing to Venezuela when pirates attacked our ship.
- In one incident, 21 masked, armed pirates boarded a Malaysian fuel tanker in Indonesian waters on September 25.
- Today's pirates have maintained one tradition; their attacks are terrifying and violent.
- In the past three weeks, pirates have also attacked another tug and an oil tanker in the same region.
- Cynis and Reciler watched as the corvettes made short work of the pirate vessels.
- The English assembled into a circle with the armed pirates surrounding them.
- Sikh soldiers and British forces were deployed when rebels and pirates attacked colonial interests.
- In turn, Kirby caught every detail of her swashbuckling pirate.
Synonyms
freebooter
marauder, raider
historical buccaneer, privateer
archaic corsair, rover, sea rover
rare picaroon, filibuster, sea thief, sea robber, water thief, sea wolf, sea rat, water rat, marooner
1. 1.1 A person who appropriates or reproduces the work of another for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright.
  as modifier pirate recordings
  Example sentencesExamples
  Music internet pirates, Craig reminds us, are devious little monkeys.
  However pirate copies of Windows and Office can be obtained for $4.
  If this was a first time offence, convicted software pirates are liable to fines up to $5,200 or two years in jail.
  Software pirates are criminals and deserve to be treated as such.
  "Buy a pirate DVD and you're far from being the only victim.
  Bait and BSA formed a workgroup for reaching consent on the procedures and the police checks of suspected software pirates.
  Greedy crooks in a third world country are making pirate copies of your latest DVD!
  Here is bad news for Asian copyright pirates: Britain's criminal underworld has decided to go it alone.
  Why should downloaders, freeloaders, pirates and copyright felons be entitled to the protection of the law?
  The law was drawn up to target professional pirates, criminals and counterfeiters who make copies of goods such as football shirts or CDs.
  There was no discussion of the immorality of the criminals who pirate the movies or buy from the pirates.
  Some become music pirates just to do something illegal, something different.
  Obviously, these are copies, fakes, pirate booty.
  But there is such a large margin of error for these Chinatown pirate DVDs.
  A gang of four suspected software pirates were arrested in a raid by FBI agents in Los Angeles last week.
  With some trial and error a software pirate can sit and generate product keys until one is found to be working.
  Microsoft has busted a group of suspected Scottish software pirates and seized kit worth more than £3 million.
  The record companies saw them as free-loading pirates who were stealing copyrighted songs.
  He rightly points out that China is only paying lip service to cracking down on counterfeiters and copyright pirates.
  Did you know the profit margins on pirate CDs are higher than cocaine?
  Synonyms
  copyright infringer, plagiarist, plagiarizer
2. 1.2 A person or organization that broadcasts radio or television programmes without official authorization.
  as modifier a pirate radio station
  Example sentencesExamples
  You got your start in radio as a pirate broadcaster.
  Originally put together to sound like a pirate radio broadcast, listening to it now it's like a little time machine.
  Dunphy is reluctant to be drawn on his experience of running a pirate station.
  An edited version later broadcast on the then pirate radio station Radio Kilkenny resulted in a strong protest from Jim Gibbons and his family.
  Radio Friendly was a pirate radio station in Galway City that had been broadcasting for almost twelve months.
  I now have the chance to broadcast from a ship in the way those radio pirates did!
  You could - in theory - be prosecuted for running a pirate radio station.
  A cascade of treasured memories come flooding back; my own upbringing taking in Soul Weekenders, warehouse parties, and stints as a pirate radio broadcaster.
  The pirate radio's broadcasts reached listeners as far away as Germany, France, Switzerland, Britain and the Netherlands.
  So what is it that defines a pirate radio station?
  If an application to secure a full-time licence is successful, organisers of Wharfedale FM plan to develop it along the lines of the old pirate radio stations.
  Now former Leeds pirate radio broadcaster Jez is looking to use some of the money to benefit hip-hop talent in Africa.
  Pirate station Phantom FM is making its third bid for a Dublin licence.
  But pirate radio broadcasters were always subject to arrest for violation of U.S. law.
  Another search is also on, as it turns out that a pirate radio station is broadcasting from the glen.
  The dismantling of a pirate radio station by police was today hailed as a ‘giant step forward’ by Southend's environment chief.
  The pirate radio ship was an excellent experience.
  These were used to find people with wireless sets but without licences - and to keep an ear open for pirate radio broadcasts too.
  The Radio Caroline pirate radio ship is moored up at Tilbury port.
  It was the UK's first pirate radio station to broadcast 24 hours a day.

verb ˈpʌɪrətˈpaɪrət

[with object]

1often as adjective piratedUse or reproduce (another's work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright.
pirated tapes of Hollywood blockbusters
Example sentencesExamples
- "It doesn't allow people to pirate music, " Hammerton said.
- Now, that is because they're trying to prevent people from pirating the movie.
- Stevens is no hero: he was found guilty in a separate case of selling pirated software.
- Other people shouldn't be able to profit from your work by selling pirated editions: that was the whole point of copyright law.
- There is no color to it, and it seems to have been mastered from an old VHS home video tape pirated from the front row.
- Miguel has been selling pirated music to tourists and Cubans for almost twenty years.
- Members learned the genre through pirated CDs and videos smuggled in from Turkey and Jordan.
- Firstly, with the emergence of DVDs and pirated VCDs, not many film buffs visit theatres anymore.
- Although the software was popular, the software writer and his partner did not always get paid: hobbyists were pirating their work.
- I also noticed that the article claims that 50,000 people in Mexico make a living selling pirated music.
- He said the conviction was the first he knew of involving a foreigner selling pirated DVDs.
- Have you heard of anyone having pirated CD's confiscated at customs?
- But copyright law did not apply internationally, which meant publishers overseas were free to pirate his works.
- But an avalanche of English-language pirated copies of the film is spreading across China.
- The DMCA assumes that the only reason to do any of this work is to pirate copyrighted works.
- I find it hard to believe that Academy voters would care about pirating their copies.
- The warning came from Business Software Alliance who have urged adults to teach children that downloading pirated software is illegal.
- If necessary, he'll pirate his own movie to get it out there.
- Pirated copies of the latest Harry Potter are all over the city.
- Document 18 has heavy penalties for people who purchase or sell pirated software.
Synonyms
reproduce illegally, infringe the copyright of, copy illegally, plagiarize, poach, steal, appropriate, bootleg
informal crib, lift, rip off
British informal nick, pinch
2dated Rob or plunder (a ship)
one of the ferry launches had been pirated while still in the harbour
Example sentencesExamples
- It was interesting how he basically said that his ship was pirated by these people and that he was afraid.
- Then we are going to have to pirate every dead ship we come across for a long while.
Synonyms
pillage, loot, rob, raid, ransack, strip, fleece, ravage, lay waste, devastate, maraud, sack, rape

Derivatives

piratic

adjective pʌɪˈratɪk

The Buccaneers, dashing enough in its way with its traditional piratic flavour, was still too land-bound by far.
Example sentencesExamples
- An investigation was held and they found out at least thirty of Yarmouth's ships had been involved in piratic activities.
- His ship was accused of involvement in a piratic act in 1436, and he was personally accused of conspiring to hijack another ship, of which he later became the owner.
- People now can be hardcore ninja dwarves, or err towards the piratic side of elfdom.
- They are the problem in Mindanao because they have always been the aggressors, oppressors and colonizers, the inheritors of piratic colonialism.

piratical

adjective pʌɪˈratɪk(ə)l

American directors (such as Raoul Walsh) sported piratical eye-patches and had difficulty with rolling tobacco.
Example sentencesExamples
- In those years the industry faced a piratical threat more serious than any before or - until recently - since.
- But not just any ship, it needed to be fast enough to sail the seas undetected and yet fearsome enough to do justice to my stalwart piratical persona.
- Bronwyn is tall, blonde, willowy, already a great beauty, while Ian is darkly bearded, almost piratical.
- Napster thus couldn't plead ignorance of its users' piratical pastimes.

piratically

adverb pʌɪˈratɪk(ə)li

True, but his character called for it and he quite piratically steals the show.
Example sentencesExamples
- The kitchen maids had piratically screamed the house down in their wake, calling out orders, arguing, spilling flour and milk, cleaning it up, and even crying.
- In 1716 Curll piratically published some of her Town Eclogues and Court Poems; the Eclogues with other poems were republished in 1747.

Origin

Middle English: from Latin pirata, from Greek peiratēs, from peirein 'to attempt, attack' (from peira 'an attempt').

The key idea behind pirates is that they are people who attack you. It comes from Latin pirata, which went back to Greek peirein ‘to attempt, attack’.

Definition of pirate in US English:

pirate

nounˈpīrətˈpaɪrət

1A person who attacks and robs ships at sea.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the past three weeks, pirates have also attacked another tug and an oil tanker in the same region.
- Last year, Johnny Depp played a pirate sailing the high seas.
- The tugboat, carrying eight Japanese and six Filipino crew members, was attacked by armed pirates.
- In turn, Kirby caught every detail of her swashbuckling pirate.
- She worried about them and what would happen if the islanders caught the pirate crew.
- In one incident, 21 masked, armed pirates boarded a Malaysian fuel tanker in Indonesian waters on September 25.
- Cynis and Reciler watched as the corvettes made short work of the pirate vessels.
- Just then four other pirate ships began to approach them.
- Sikh soldiers and British forces were deployed when rebels and pirates attacked colonial interests.
- The notorious pirate who sailed the seven seas without once being caught!
- No, it was the other pirates who kidnapped her.
- The English assembled into a circle with the armed pirates surrounding them.
- But immediately after, another group of pirates attacked the same ship.
- Then together we will be the most fearsome pirates on the sea.
- The ship was named for an infamous pirate from the eighteenth century.
- Pearl scurried about the deck, searching the pirate crew to find the captain.
- Today's pirates have maintained one tradition; their attacks are terrifying and violent.
- Like I was a pirate on the sea again, with everything right.
- We are originally from Wales, you see, but we came from England and were sailing to Venezuela when pirates attacked our ship.
- Rys's father, William Rose, had been one of the best and most feared pirates on every sea.
Synonyms
freebooter
1. 1.1 A person who appropriates or reproduces the work of another for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright.
  software pirates
  Example sentencesExamples
  Did you know the profit margins on pirate CDs are higher than cocaine?
  Bait and BSA formed a workgroup for reaching consent on the procedures and the police checks of suspected software pirates.
  Music internet pirates, Craig reminds us, are devious little monkeys.
  Microsoft has busted a group of suspected Scottish software pirates and seized kit worth more than £3 million.
  The record companies saw them as free-loading pirates who were stealing copyrighted songs.
  Some become music pirates just to do something illegal, something different.
  But there is such a large margin of error for these Chinatown pirate DVDs.
  A gang of four suspected software pirates were arrested in a raid by FBI agents in Los Angeles last week.
  However pirate copies of Windows and Office can be obtained for $4.
  Why should downloaders, freeloaders, pirates and copyright felons be entitled to the protection of the law?
  Obviously, these are copies, fakes, pirate booty.
  Greedy crooks in a third world country are making pirate copies of your latest DVD!
  "Buy a pirate DVD and you're far from being the only victim.
  The law was drawn up to target professional pirates, criminals and counterfeiters who make copies of goods such as football shirts or CDs.
  If this was a first time offence, convicted software pirates are liable to fines up to $5,200 or two years in jail.
  There was no discussion of the immorality of the criminals who pirate the movies or buy from the pirates.
  Software pirates are criminals and deserve to be treated as such.
  With some trial and error a software pirate can sit and generate product keys until one is found to be working.
  Here is bad news for Asian copyright pirates: Britain's criminal underworld has decided to go it alone.
  He rightly points out that China is only paying lip service to cracking down on counterfeiters and copyright pirates.
  Synonyms
  copyright infringer, plagiarist, plagiarizer
2. 1.2 A person or organization that broadcasts radio or television programs without official authorization.
  as modifier a pirate radio station
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Radio Caroline pirate radio ship is moored up at Tilbury port.
  It was the UK's first pirate radio station to broadcast 24 hours a day.
  An edited version later broadcast on the then pirate radio station Radio Kilkenny resulted in a strong protest from Jim Gibbons and his family.
  You could - in theory - be prosecuted for running a pirate radio station.
  Now former Leeds pirate radio broadcaster Jez is looking to use some of the money to benefit hip-hop talent in Africa.
  The dismantling of a pirate radio station by police was today hailed as a ‘giant step forward’ by Southend's environment chief.
  I now have the chance to broadcast from a ship in the way those radio pirates did!
  But pirate radio broadcasters were always subject to arrest for violation of U.S. law.
  If an application to secure a full-time licence is successful, organisers of Wharfedale FM plan to develop it along the lines of the old pirate radio stations.
  Originally put together to sound like a pirate radio broadcast, listening to it now it's like a little time machine.
  Another search is also on, as it turns out that a pirate radio station is broadcasting from the glen.
  These were used to find people with wireless sets but without licences - and to keep an ear open for pirate radio broadcasts too.
  The pirate radio ship was an excellent experience.
  The pirate radio's broadcasts reached listeners as far away as Germany, France, Switzerland, Britain and the Netherlands.
  So what is it that defines a pirate radio station?
  Pirate station Phantom FM is making its third bid for a Dublin licence.
  You got your start in radio as a pirate broadcaster.
  Dunphy is reluctant to be drawn on his experience of running a pirate station.
  A cascade of treasured memories come flooding back; my own upbringing taking in Soul Weekenders, warehouse parties, and stints as a pirate radio broadcaster.
  Radio Friendly was a pirate radio station in Galway City that had been broadcasting for almost twelve months.

verbˈpīrətˈpaɪrət

[with object]

1often as adjective piratedUse or reproduce (another's work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright.
he sold pirated tapes of Hollywood blockbusters
a competing company cannot pirate its intellectual achievements
Example sentencesExamples
- There is no color to it, and it seems to have been mastered from an old VHS home video tape pirated from the front row.
- Other people shouldn't be able to profit from your work by selling pirated editions: that was the whole point of copyright law.
- If necessary, he'll pirate his own movie to get it out there.
- Members learned the genre through pirated CDs and videos smuggled in from Turkey and Jordan.
- He said the conviction was the first he knew of involving a foreigner selling pirated DVDs.
- Now, that is because they're trying to prevent people from pirating the movie.
- The DMCA assumes that the only reason to do any of this work is to pirate copyrighted works.
- Miguel has been selling pirated music to tourists and Cubans for almost twenty years.
- I find it hard to believe that Academy voters would care about pirating their copies.
- I also noticed that the article claims that 50,000 people in Mexico make a living selling pirated music.
- But an avalanche of English-language pirated copies of the film is spreading across China.
- Have you heard of anyone having pirated CD's confiscated at customs?
- Stevens is no hero: he was found guilty in a separate case of selling pirated software.
- "It doesn't allow people to pirate music, " Hammerton said.
- Document 18 has heavy penalties for people who purchase or sell pirated software.
- Pirated copies of the latest Harry Potter are all over the city.
- Firstly, with the emergence of DVDs and pirated VCDs, not many film buffs visit theatres anymore.
- But copyright law did not apply internationally, which meant publishers overseas were free to pirate his works.
- The warning came from Business Software Alliance who have urged adults to teach children that downloading pirated software is illegal.
- Although the software was popular, the software writer and his partner did not always get paid: hobbyists were pirating their work.
Synonyms
reproduce illegally, infringe the copyright of, copy illegally, plagiarize, poach, steal, appropriate, bootleg
2dated Rob or plunder (a ship).
Example sentencesExamples
- Then we are going to have to pirate every dead ship we come across for a long while.
- It was interesting how he basically said that his ship was pirated by these people and that he was afraid.
Synonyms
pillage, loot, rob, raid, ransack, strip, fleece, ravage, lay waste, devastate, maraud, sack, rape

Origin

Middle English: from Latin pirata, from Greek peiratēs, from peirein ‘to attempt, attack’ (from peira ‘an attempt’).

单词	pirate
释义	Definition of pirate in English: pirate noun ˈpʌɪrətˈpaɪrət 1A person who attacks and robs ships at sea. as modifier a pirate ship Example sentencesExamples The tugboat, carrying eight Japanese and six Filipino crew members, was attacked by armed pirates. She worried about them and what would happen if the islanders caught the pirate crew. Like I was a pirate on the sea again, with everything right. But immediately after, another group of pirates attacked the same ship. No, it was the other pirates who kidnapped her. Then together we will be the most fearsome pirates on the sea. Just then four other pirate ships began to approach them. The ship was named for an infamous pirate from the eighteenth century. Pearl scurried about the deck, searching the pirate crew to find the captain. Rys's father, William Rose, had been one of the best and most feared pirates on every sea. The notorious pirate who sailed the seven seas without once being caught! Last year, Johnny Depp played a pirate sailing the high seas. We are originally from Wales, you see, but we came from England and were sailing to Venezuela when pirates attacked our ship. In one incident, 21 masked, armed pirates boarded a Malaysian fuel tanker in Indonesian waters on September 25. Today's pirates have maintained one tradition; their attacks are terrifying and violent. In the past three weeks, pirates have also attacked another tug and an oil tanker in the same region. Cynis and Reciler watched as the corvettes made short work of the pirate vessels. The English assembled into a circle with the armed pirates surrounding them. Sikh soldiers and British forces were deployed when rebels and pirates attacked colonial interests. In turn, Kirby caught every detail of her swashbuckling pirate. Synonyms freebooter marauder, raider historical buccaneer, privateer archaic corsair, rover, sea rover rare picaroon, filibuster, sea thief, sea robber, water thief, sea wolf, sea rat, water rat, marooner 1.1 A person who appropriates or reproduces the work of another for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright. as modifier pirate recordings Example sentencesExamples Music internet pirates, Craig reminds us, are devious little monkeys. However pirate copies of Windows and Office can be obtained for $4. If this was a first time offence, convicted software pirates are liable to fines up to $5,200 or two years in jail. Software pirates are criminals and deserve to be treated as such. "Buy a pirate DVD and you're far from being the only victim. Bait and BSA formed a workgroup for reaching consent on the procedures and the police checks of suspected software pirates. Greedy crooks in a third world country are making pirate copies of your latest DVD! Here is bad news for Asian copyright pirates: Britain's criminal underworld has decided to go it alone. Why should downloaders, freeloaders, pirates and copyright felons be entitled to the protection of the law? The law was drawn up to target professional pirates, criminals and counterfeiters who make copies of goods such as football shirts or CDs. There was no discussion of the immorality of the criminals who pirate the movies or buy from the pirates. Some become music pirates just to do something illegal, something different. Obviously, these are copies, fakes, pirate booty. But there is such a large margin of error for these Chinatown pirate DVDs. A gang of four suspected software pirates were arrested in a raid by FBI agents in Los Angeles last week. With some trial and error a software pirate can sit and generate product keys until one is found to be working. Microsoft has busted a group of suspected Scottish software pirates and seized kit worth more than £3 million. The record companies saw them as free-loading pirates who were stealing copyrighted songs. He rightly points out that China is only paying lip service to cracking down on counterfeiters and copyright pirates. Did you know the profit margins on pirate CDs are higher than cocaine? Synonyms copyright infringer, plagiarist, plagiarizer 1.2 A person or organization that broadcasts radio or television programmes without official authorization. as modifier a pirate radio station Example sentencesExamples You got your start in radio as a pirate broadcaster. Originally put together to sound like a pirate radio broadcast, listening to it now it's like a little time machine. Dunphy is reluctant to be drawn on his experience of running a pirate station. An edited version later broadcast on the then pirate radio station Radio Kilkenny resulted in a strong protest from Jim Gibbons and his family. Radio Friendly was a pirate radio station in Galway City that had been broadcasting for almost twelve months. I now have the chance to broadcast from a ship in the way those radio pirates did! You could - in theory - be prosecuted for running a pirate radio station. A cascade of treasured memories come flooding back; my own upbringing taking in Soul Weekenders, warehouse parties, and stints as a pirate radio broadcaster. The pirate radio's broadcasts reached listeners as far away as Germany, France, Switzerland, Britain and the Netherlands. So what is it that defines a pirate radio station? If an application to secure a full-time licence is successful, organisers of Wharfedale FM plan to develop it along the lines of the old pirate radio stations. Now former Leeds pirate radio broadcaster Jez is looking to use some of the money to benefit hip-hop talent in Africa. Pirate station Phantom FM is making its third bid for a Dublin licence. But pirate radio broadcasters were always subject to arrest for violation of U.S. law. Another search is also on, as it turns out that a pirate radio station is broadcasting from the glen. The dismantling of a pirate radio station by police was today hailed as a ‘giant step forward’ by Southend's environment chief. The pirate radio ship was an excellent experience. These were used to find people with wireless sets but without licences - and to keep an ear open for pirate radio broadcasts too. The Radio Caroline pirate radio ship is moored up at Tilbury port. It was the UK's first pirate radio station to broadcast 24 hours a day. verb ˈpʌɪrətˈpaɪrət [with object] 1often as adjective piratedUse or reproduce (another's work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright. pirated tapes of Hollywood blockbusters Example sentencesExamples "It doesn't allow people to pirate music, " Hammerton said. Now, that is because they're trying to prevent people from pirating the movie. Stevens is no hero: he was found guilty in a separate case of selling pirated software. Other people shouldn't be able to profit from your work by selling pirated editions: that was the whole point of copyright law. There is no color to it, and it seems to have been mastered from an old VHS home video tape pirated from the front row. Miguel has been selling pirated music to tourists and Cubans for almost twenty years. Members learned the genre through pirated CDs and videos smuggled in from Turkey and Jordan. Firstly, with the emergence of DVDs and pirated VCDs, not many film buffs visit theatres anymore. Although the software was popular, the software writer and his partner did not always get paid: hobbyists were pirating their work. I also noticed that the article claims that 50,000 people in Mexico make a living selling pirated music. He said the conviction was the first he knew of involving a foreigner selling pirated DVDs. Have you heard of anyone having pirated CD's confiscated at customs? But copyright law did not apply internationally, which meant publishers overseas were free to pirate his works. But an avalanche of English-language pirated copies of the film is spreading across China. The DMCA assumes that the only reason to do any of this work is to pirate copyrighted works. I find it hard to believe that Academy voters would care about pirating their copies. The warning came from Business Software Alliance who have urged adults to teach children that downloading pirated software is illegal. If necessary, he'll pirate his own movie to get it out there. Pirated copies of the latest Harry Potter are all over the city. Document 18 has heavy penalties for people who purchase or sell pirated software. Synonyms reproduce illegally, infringe the copyright of, copy illegally, plagiarize, poach, steal, appropriate, bootleg informal crib, lift, rip off British informal nick, pinch 2dated Rob or plunder (a ship) one of the ferry launches had been pirated while still in the harbour Example sentencesExamples It was interesting how he basically said that his ship was pirated by these people and that he was afraid. Then we are going to have to pirate every dead ship we come across for a long while. Synonyms pillage, loot, rob, raid, ransack, strip, fleece, ravage, lay waste, devastate, maraud, sack, rape Derivatives piratic adjective pʌɪˈratɪk The Buccaneers, dashing enough in its way with its traditional piratic flavour, was still too land-bound by far. Example sentencesExamples An investigation was held and they found out at least thirty of Yarmouth's ships had been involved in piratic activities. His ship was accused of involvement in a piratic act in 1436, and he was personally accused of conspiring to hijack another ship, of which he later became the owner. People now can be hardcore ninja dwarves, or err towards the piratic side of elfdom. They are the problem in Mindanao because they have always been the aggressors, oppressors and colonizers, the inheritors of piratic colonialism. piratical adjective pʌɪˈratɪk(ə)l American directors (such as Raoul Walsh) sported piratical eye-patches and had difficulty with rolling tobacco. Example sentencesExamples In those years the industry faced a piratical threat more serious than any before or - until recently - since. But not just any ship, it needed to be fast enough to sail the seas undetected and yet fearsome enough to do justice to my stalwart piratical persona. Bronwyn is tall, blonde, willowy, already a great beauty, while Ian is darkly bearded, almost piratical. Napster thus couldn't plead ignorance of its users' piratical pastimes. piratically adverb pʌɪˈratɪk(ə)li True, but his character called for it and he quite piratically steals the show. Example sentencesExamples The kitchen maids had piratically screamed the house down in their wake, calling out orders, arguing, spilling flour and milk, cleaning it up, and even crying. In 1716 Curll piratically published some of her Town Eclogues and Court Poems; the Eclogues with other poems were republished in 1747. Origin Middle English: from Latin pirata, from Greek peiratēs, from peirein 'to attempt, attack' (from peira 'an attempt'). The key idea behind pirates is that they are people who attack you. It comes from Latin pirata, which went back to Greek peirein ‘to attempt, attack’. Definition of pirate in US English: pirate nounˈpīrətˈpaɪrət 1A person who attacks and robs ships at sea. Example sentencesExamples In the past three weeks, pirates have also attacked another tug and an oil tanker in the same region. Last year, Johnny Depp played a pirate sailing the high seas. The tugboat, carrying eight Japanese and six Filipino crew members, was attacked by armed pirates. In turn, Kirby caught every detail of her swashbuckling pirate. She worried about them and what would happen if the islanders caught the pirate crew. In one incident, 21 masked, armed pirates boarded a Malaysian fuel tanker in Indonesian waters on September 25. Cynis and Reciler watched as the corvettes made short work of the pirate vessels. Just then four other pirate ships began to approach them. Sikh soldiers and British forces were deployed when rebels and pirates attacked colonial interests. The notorious pirate who sailed the seven seas without once being caught! No, it was the other pirates who kidnapped her. The English assembled into a circle with the armed pirates surrounding them. But immediately after, another group of pirates attacked the same ship. Then together we will be the most fearsome pirates on the sea. The ship was named for an infamous pirate from the eighteenth century. Pearl scurried about the deck, searching the pirate crew to find the captain. Today's pirates have maintained one tradition; their attacks are terrifying and violent. Like I was a pirate on the sea again, with everything right. We are originally from Wales, you see, but we came from England and were sailing to Venezuela when pirates attacked our ship. Rys's father, William Rose, had been one of the best and most feared pirates on every sea. Synonyms freebooter 1.1 A person who appropriates or reproduces the work of another for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright. software pirates Example sentencesExamples Did you know the profit margins on pirate CDs are higher than cocaine? Bait and BSA formed a workgroup for reaching consent on the procedures and the police checks of suspected software pirates. Music internet pirates, Craig reminds us, are devious little monkeys. Microsoft has busted a group of suspected Scottish software pirates and seized kit worth more than £3 million. The record companies saw them as free-loading pirates who were stealing copyrighted songs. Some become music pirates just to do something illegal, something different. But there is such a large margin of error for these Chinatown pirate DVDs. A gang of four suspected software pirates were arrested in a raid by FBI agents in Los Angeles last week. However pirate copies of Windows and Office can be obtained for $4. Why should downloaders, freeloaders, pirates and copyright felons be entitled to the protection of the law? Obviously, these are copies, fakes, pirate booty. Greedy crooks in a third world country are making pirate copies of your latest DVD! "Buy a pirate DVD and you're far from being the only victim. The law was drawn up to target professional pirates, criminals and counterfeiters who make copies of goods such as football shirts or CDs. If this was a first time offence, convicted software pirates are liable to fines up to $5,200 or two years in jail. There was no discussion of the immorality of the criminals who pirate the movies or buy from the pirates. Software pirates are criminals and deserve to be treated as such. With some trial and error a software pirate can sit and generate product keys until one is found to be working. Here is bad news for Asian copyright pirates: Britain's criminal underworld has decided to go it alone. He rightly points out that China is only paying lip service to cracking down on counterfeiters and copyright pirates. Synonyms copyright infringer, plagiarist, plagiarizer 1.2 A person or organization that broadcasts radio or television programs without official authorization. as modifier a pirate radio station Example sentencesExamples The Radio Caroline pirate radio ship is moored up at Tilbury port. It was the UK's first pirate radio station to broadcast 24 hours a day. An edited version later broadcast on the then pirate radio station Radio Kilkenny resulted in a strong protest from Jim Gibbons and his family. You could - in theory - be prosecuted for running a pirate radio station. Now former Leeds pirate radio broadcaster Jez is looking to use some of the money to benefit hip-hop talent in Africa. The dismantling of a pirate radio station by police was today hailed as a ‘giant step forward’ by Southend's environment chief. I now have the chance to broadcast from a ship in the way those radio pirates did! But pirate radio broadcasters were always subject to arrest for violation of U.S. law. If an application to secure a full-time licence is successful, organisers of Wharfedale FM plan to develop it along the lines of the old pirate radio stations. Originally put together to sound like a pirate radio broadcast, listening to it now it's like a little time machine. Another search is also on, as it turns out that a pirate radio station is broadcasting from the glen. These were used to find people with wireless sets but without licences - and to keep an ear open for pirate radio broadcasts too. The pirate radio ship was an excellent experience. The pirate radio's broadcasts reached listeners as far away as Germany, France, Switzerland, Britain and the Netherlands. So what is it that defines a pirate radio station? Pirate station Phantom FM is making its third bid for a Dublin licence. You got your start in radio as a pirate broadcaster. Dunphy is reluctant to be drawn on his experience of running a pirate station. A cascade of treasured memories come flooding back; my own upbringing taking in Soul Weekenders, warehouse parties, and stints as a pirate radio broadcaster. Radio Friendly was a pirate radio station in Galway City that had been broadcasting for almost twelve months. verbˈpīrətˈpaɪrət [with object] 1often as adjective piratedUse or reproduce (another's work) for profit without permission, usually in contravention of patent or copyright. he sold pirated tapes of Hollywood blockbusters a competing company cannot pirate its intellectual achievements Example sentencesExamples There is no color to it, and it seems to have been mastered from an old VHS home video tape pirated from the front row. Other people shouldn't be able to profit from your work by selling pirated editions: that was the whole point of copyright law. If necessary, he'll pirate his own movie to get it out there. Members learned the genre through pirated CDs and videos smuggled in from Turkey and Jordan. He said the conviction was the first he knew of involving a foreigner selling pirated DVDs. Now, that is because they're trying to prevent people from pirating the movie. The DMCA assumes that the only reason to do any of this work is to pirate copyrighted works. Miguel has been selling pirated music to tourists and Cubans for almost twenty years. I find it hard to believe that Academy voters would care about pirating their copies. I also noticed that the article claims that 50,000 people in Mexico make a living selling pirated music. But an avalanche of English-language pirated copies of the film is spreading across China. Have you heard of anyone having pirated CD's confiscated at customs? Stevens is no hero: he was found guilty in a separate case of selling pirated software. "It doesn't allow people to pirate music, " Hammerton said. Document 18 has heavy penalties for people who purchase or sell pirated software. Pirated copies of the latest Harry Potter are all over the city. Firstly, with the emergence of DVDs and pirated VCDs, not many film buffs visit theatres anymore. But copyright law did not apply internationally, which meant publishers overseas were free to pirate his works. The warning came from Business Software Alliance who have urged adults to teach children that downloading pirated software is illegal. Although the software was popular, the software writer and his partner did not always get paid: hobbyists were pirating their work. Synonyms reproduce illegally, infringe the copyright of, copy illegally, plagiarize, poach, steal, appropriate, bootleg 2dated Rob or plunder (a ship). Example sentencesExamples Then we are going to have to pirate every dead ship we come across for a long while. It was interesting how he basically said that his ship was pirated by these people and that he was afraid. Synonyms pillage, loot, rob, raid, ransack, strip, fleece, ravage, lay waste, devastate, maraud, sack, rape Origin Middle English: from Latin pirata, from Greek peiratēs, from peirein ‘to attempt, attack’ (from peira ‘an attempt’).
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