pirate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpaɪɹət/|/ˈpaɪ̯ɹɪt/    美 /ˈpaɪɹət/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
    — You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
  2. An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
    — How did you do it? Have you searched for hidden treasure, or discovered a pole, or done time on a pirate, or flown the Channel, or what? Where is the glamour of romance? How did you get it?
  3. One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission. broadly
    — And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.
  4. A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
  5. A kind of marble in children's games.
    — Most of the time it went fine; some of his classmates had so many marbles they could have opened up their own shop in smurfs, pirates, purple aggies and pink panthers.
动词 v.
  1. To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea. transitive
    — They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
  2. To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of. transitive
    — If a book is pirated there is a remedy for the author and publisher; if a photograph or an engraving is made of a picture without permission the law protects the painter.
  3. To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of. transitive
    — Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
  4. To engage in piracy. intransitive
    — He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
  5. To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own. Philippines,intransitive,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself. not-comparable

词形变化

pirates plural pyrate alternative,obsolete pirates present,singular,third-person pirating participle,present pirated participle,past pirated past pyrate alternative,obsolete pyrate alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
buccaneer corsair freebooter picaroon pirate raider reaver sea rat sea-robber sea rover
上位词
criminal plunderer sailor thief
下位词
filibuster privateer sea king seajacker viking
衍生词
air pirate antipirate archpirate arch-pirate bee pirate biopirate butt pirate cyberpirate land pirate minute pirate bug piracy piratable pirate articles pirate bug piratebush pirated pirate library piratelike pirately pirate perch pirate radio pirate round pirate ship pirateship pirate shirt pirate spider piratess pirateware piratey piratic piratical piratism poo pirate porch pirate puddle pirate unpirateable
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English pirate, pirat, pyrat, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta (“pirate”), from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".
词源 2
From Middle English pirate, pirat, pyrat, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta (“pirate”), from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".
词源 3
From Middle English pirate, pirat, pyrat, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta (“pirate”), from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".
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