Pirate vs Knight - What's the difference?
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A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
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,
* 2004 , David Lubar, Dunk , page 20:
* 2008 , Martha Vicinus, Caroline Eisner, Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age , page 21:
(nautical) To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.
(intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
(intellectual property) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of
* 2002 , John Sayle Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy , page 343
* 2004 , Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing
* 2007 , Diane Kresh, Council on Library and Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook , page 85
To engage in piracy.
Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.
A warrior, especially of the Middle Ages.
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.
To confer knighthood upon.
(chess) To promote (a pawn) to a 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)- You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates .
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- And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
- 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.
- 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) bootleggerVerb
(pirat)- They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
- Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
- In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
- College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).
- Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate , movies, music, software, and TV programs.
- 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)Synonyms
* piratedSee 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)- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
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)- The king knighted the young squire .