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pirate | gnome |

As nouns the difference between pirate and gnome

is that pirate is a criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns while gnome is a brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.

As a verb pirate

is to appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.

As an adjective pirate

is illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.

As a proper noun GNOME is

an open source, free software computer desktop environment for Unix operating systems.

pirate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
  • You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates .
  • 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 978-0-7382-0777-3, page 178:
  • And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
  • * 2004 , David Lubar, Dunk , page 20:
  • They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China.
  • * 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.

    Synonyms

    * (one who plunders at sea) buccaneer, corsair, picaroon, privateer, sea rover * (one who breaks intellectual property laws by copying) bootlegger

    Verb

    (pirat)
  • (nautical) To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.
  • They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
  • (intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
  • (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.
  • * 2004 , Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing
  • College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
  • * 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.
  • 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)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.
  • Synonyms

    * pirated

    See also

    * Jolly Roger * skull and crossbones ----

    gnome

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.
  • * 1996 , , Giorgio A. Pinton, Arthur W. Shippee (translators), The Art of Rhetoric'', [1711-1741, Giambattista Vico, ''Institutiones Oratoriae ], page 125,
  • The Greeks in their tongue call this second type of maxim noema''. The gnome''' is more appropriate to the philosophers, and the noema to the orators, to the poets, and to the historians. To speak by '''gnomes alone was referred to by the Greeks as "philosophizing" which we Italians would render as "to mouth maxims" (''sputar sentenze ).
  • * 2003 , Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion , page 386,
  • Thus, the gnome''''' concerning the precarious nature of, and the potential suffering in, human life sent by the gods uttered by Electra is deconstructed by her choice of paradigm. By using Tantalos as an illustration, the play overturns the apparent meaning of the '''''gnome .
    Synonyms
    * adage, apothegm, maxim, paroemia, proverb, sententia

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
  • * 1811 , The Medical and Physical Journal , Volume 25, page 138,
  • He adopts the Rosycrusian fancy of Gnomes , spirits which inhabit the earth, and who by their power form the ores of metals, and all the wonders met with in the inmost recesses of the globe.
  • * 2006 , Greg Lynch, RuneQuest Monsters , page 52,
  • Gnomes are perhaps the most useful of the elementals.
    A gnome' can carry a person with it as it swims through the soil, provided it is strong enough to lift the person. The ' gnome cannot, however, provide air for that person.
  • * 2007 , Christopher Penczak, Ascension Magick: Ritual, Myth and Healing for the New Aeon , page 413,
  • Elementals are the consciousness guiding the four classical elements of earth, fire, air, and water. These elementals are depicted as gnomes , salamanders, diminutive faeries known as sylphs, and merfolk, known as undines, respectively.
  • (mythology, fantasy literature) One of a legendary race of human-like beings, usually imagined as short bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.
  • * 2011 , Ross Lawhead, The Realms Thereunder , page 251,
  • There were not one but four gnomes standing at his feet. “I nearly trod on you,” Daniel said. “What are you doing here?”
    The gnomes just stood, looking up at him.
  • A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
  • The (northern pygmy owl), , a small owl of the western United States.
  • A small statue placed in a garden to ward off pests and protect a home from sorcery.
  • * 2011 , Bronwen Forbes, The Small-Town Pagan's Survival Guide , page 72,
  • My mother-in-law, who swears she is a good Lutheran but is also the most powerful Witch I have ever met, also has at least a dozen small lawn gnomes' peeking out from beside her shrubs, next to the lilac bushes, and hanging out with the roses. My husband has already started our collection; as of this writing, four '''gnomes''' and one moss-covered rabbit hang out in the shrubbery by the front door, two ' gnomes live in the dining room, and one guards the perpetual pile of to-do paperwork that lives next to the computer.
  • (astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
  • Derived terms
    * garden gnome

    See also

    * kobold * salamander (elemental of fire) * sylph (elemental of air) * undine (elemental of water)

    References

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