Pirate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.”

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

   “How did you do it? Have you searched for hidden treasure, or discovered a pole, or done time on a pirate, or flown the Channel, or what? Where is the glamour of romance? How did you get it?”

3. isim One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.

   “And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.”

4. isim A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
5. isim A kind of marble in children's games.

   “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.”

6. fiil To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.

   “They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.”

7. fiil To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.

   “If a book is pirated there is a remedy for the author and publisher; if a photograph or an engraving is made of a picture without permission the law protects the painter.”

8. fiil To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.

   “Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.”

9. fiil To engage in piracy.

   “He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.”

10. fiil To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
11. sıfat Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
12. isim someone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.
13. isim someone connected with Bristol Rovers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.