![]() ![]() Here is where things get tricky: as described by Han, it would seem that the word pirate has a positive connotation.Ĭhuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010 'Piracy Today: Fighting Villainy on the High Seas' 2010 The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BEPPI CROSARIOL 2011įor our purposes the term pirate applies to all ships attacked while under way, either on the high seas or in territorial waters. The latest TV spot features two men diving into a pool to retrieve a treasure chest and, in a plot line that brings new meaning to the term pirate booty, getting chased through the streets by a posse of bikini-clad women. Henry, for one, knows exactly where he wants to go: someplace to “meet a pirate - a really bad pirate, the worst pirate in the world!” noun someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation.verb copy illegally of published material.noun someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own.adjective Illegaly imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.verb transitive, intellectual property To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.verb transitive, intellectual property To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.verb transitive, nautical To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.noun One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission. ![]() noun A criminal who plunders at sea commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.transitive verb To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. ![]() intransitive verb To play the pirate to practice robbery on the high seas.It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots. noun (Zoöl.) a fresh-water percoid fish of the United States ( Aphredoderus Sayanus).noun One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.noun An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.noun A robber on the high seas one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder a freebooter on the seas also, one who steals in a harbor.noun A stream that, by reason of its more favorable situation or its greater activity, encroaches upon the territory of a neigh-boring stream to such extent as to capture a part of its watercourse.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.To appropriate and publish without permission or legal right, as books, writings, etc.To commit piracy upon play the pirate toward.To appropriate and reproduce the literary or artistic work of another without right or permission specifically, to infringe on the copyright of another.To play the pirate rob on the high seas.noun A publisher, compiler, or bookseller who appropriates the literary or artistic labors of an author without compensation or permission specifically, one who infringes on the copyright of another.noun An armed vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels indiscriminately on the high seas.noun One who without authority and by violence seizes or interferes with the ship or property of another on the sea specifically, one who is habitually engaged in such robbery, or sails the seas for the robbery and plunder of merchant vessels a freebooter or corsair a sea-robber.intransitive verb To act as a pirate practice piracy.intransitive verb To make use of or reproduce (another's work) without authorization.intransitive verb To take (something) by piracy.intransitive verb To attack and rob (a ship at sea). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |