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pirate | knight |

As a noun pirate

is (sports) someone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the , as a fan, player, coach etc.

As a proper noun knight is

an english status surname for someone who was a mounted soldier.

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 ----

    knight

    English

    (wikipedia knight)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) knight, kniht, from (etyl) cniht, cneht, ‘to ball up, pinch, compress’.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A warrior, especially of the Middle Ages.
  • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  • A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
  • Nowadays, a person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
  • (chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
  • (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
  • Synonyms
    * (chess piece) horse (rare)
    Derived terms
    * knight adventurer * knight adventurous * knightage * Knight Bachelor, knight bachelor * knight-bairn * knight-banneret * knight baronet * knight brother * knight caligate of arms * knight-cross * knight-errant * knightess * knightfully * knight-head * knighthood * knightify * knight in shining armor, knight in shining armour * knightless * knightling * knightly * Knight Marshal, knight-marshal * knight-money * knight of adventurers * knight of arms * Knight of Grace * knight of industry, knight of the industry * Knight of Justice * Knight of Malta * Knight of Parliament * Knight of Rhodes * knight of St Crispin * Knight of St John * knight of the carpet * knight of the chamber * Knight of the Bath * knight of the blade * knight of the brush * knight of the cleaver * knight of the collar * Knight of the Commonty * knight of the cue * knight of the elbow * knight of the field * Knight of the Garter * knight of the grammar * knight of the knife * knight of the needle * knight of the order of the fork * knight of the pen * knight of the pencil * knight of the pestle * knight of the post * knight of the quill * knight of the rainbow * knight of the road * Knight of the Round Table * Knight of the Rueful Countenance * knight of the shears * Knight of the Shire * knight of the spigot * Knight of the Spur * knight of the square flag * knight of the stick * knight of the thimble * Knight of the Thistle * knight of the vapour * knight of the wheel * knight of the whip * knight of the whipping-post * Knight of Windsor * Knights of Columbus * Knights of Labor * Knights of Pythias * knight's cross * knight-service * knight's fee * knightship * knight's milfoil * knight's move * knight's pondwort * knight's progress * knight's star * knight's water-sengreen * knight's wort * knight's woundwort * Knight Templar * knight wager * knight-weed * knight-wife * Military Knight of Windsor * Naval Knights of Windsor * (l)
    See also
    * *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) knighten, , from the noun. Cognate with (etyl) knehten.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To confer knighthood upon.
  • The king knighted the young squire .
  • (chess) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
  • Synonyms
    * dub
    Derived terms
    * knighted * knighting

    See also

    * paladin * baronet ----