Pirate vs Parrot - 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 kind of bird, many species of which are colourful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
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A parroter; a person who repeats what was just said.
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(archaic) A puffin.
(geology, obsolete) Channel coal.
To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.
* 1996 , (15 June)
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 parrot is
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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 ----parrot
English
(wikipedia parrot)Noun
(en noun)- I bought a wonderful parrot at the pet store.
- Mrs Merdle was at home, and was in her nest of crimson and gold, with the parrot' on a neighbouring stem watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid ' parrot of a larger species.
- What kind of a parrot are you? He just said that.
- In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking . In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "parrot")Synonyms
* (kind of bird) popinjay, Psittaciformes * (person who repeats what was said) copycat, mimic, parroter * (puffin) puffin, sea-parrot, tomnoddy * (channel coal) channel coalHyponyms
* (kind of bird) (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)Derived terms
* blood parrot * blood parrotfish * burrowing parrot * parrot's beak orchid * parrot's bill * parrot-billed sparrow * parrot bush * parrot-coal * parrot crossbill * parrot cry * parrot disease * parrot feather * parrot fever * parrot flower * parrot green * parrot lily * parrot pitcher plant * parrot snake * parrot toadstool * parrot waxcap * parrot weed * parrotbill * parrotfinch * parrotfish * parrothouse * parrotlet * parroty * sea-parrotSee also
* Polly * popinjay * * who's a pretty boy thenVerb
- So when political leaders parrot the tobacco company line, say cigarettes are not necessarily addictive, and oppose our efforts to keep tobacco away from our children, they continue to cater to powerful interests, but they're not standing up for parents and children.