What's the difference between assassin and pirate?

Assassin


Definition:

  • (n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.
  • (v. t.) To assassinate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
  • (2) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
  • (3) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
  • (4) Contrary to the claims of some commentators, such as Steve Vladeck , it is impossible to argue reasonably that the memo imposed a requirement of "infeasibility of capture" on Obama's assassination power.
  • (5) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
  • (6) Sadly, the Jewish fanatic who assassinated Rabin in 1995 achieved his broader aim of derailing the peace train.
  • (7) The 25-year-old student is adamant that her mother, Berta Cáceres Flores, will not become just one more Honduran environmental activist whose work was cut short by their assassination.
  • (8) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
  • (9) Compaoré was 36 when he seized power in a coup in which Thomas Sankara, his former friend and one of Africa’s most revered leaders, was ousted and assassinated.
  • (10) The surprise return of Saleh last month, after recovering in Saudi Arabia from an assassination attempt, has plunged the country into deeper uncertainty and sharpened the differences between pro- and anti-government camps.
  • (11) The attacks had clear echoes of the unsolved assassination in January this year of one of their colleagues, particle physicist Masoud Alimohammadi.
  • (12) The exposure of unsavoury candidates, allegations of racism and attempts at character assassination of Nigel Farage can be traced to Lynton Crosby , the architect of Conservative strategy who is a veteran of battles with the far-right Pauline Hanson in Australia.
  • (13) Its willingness to ignore diplomatic convention and use its Kuala Lumpur embassy to conduct an extraterritorial assassination will be seen as setting a dire precedent that cannot be allowed to stand.
  • (14) • An assassination attempt against Gennady Kernes, the wealthy mayor of Kharkiv, left him in "extremely serious but stable condition" in the hospital.
  • (15) I was told the Guardian had been too negative about Playboy in the past, and that they were also wary after a recent "trashing in the Sunday Times magazine – where Mr Hefner underwent a complete character assassination".
  • (16) Along with other recent events elsewhere in Guerrero – including the assassination of a party political boss in a well-known restaurant in Acapulco on Sunday and the murder of five people in one of the city’s poor barrios on Monday – the impression is growing that the state, long in a state of conflict, is being pushed over the edge.
  • (17) It explains the failure to unearth evidence of assassination: because state-appointed aviation experts conducted the investigation, their conclusion that it had been an accident proves that the state remains in the hands of the perpetrators (Law and Justice defence minister Antoni Macierewicz described their investigation as the greatest cover-up “in the history of the world”).
  • (18) Two years later Rabin was assassinated by a militant Israeli opponent of the peace process.
  • (19) The future James I resorted to them on several occasions in Scotland: in 1600, for instance, he had two alleged assassins pickled in whisky, vinegar and allspice, put on trial, and then mutilated.
  • (20) But these are only the latest of the clashes and atrocities that have engulfed Libya since Nato's "liberation": including bombings, assassinations, the kidnapping of the prime minister, the seizure of oil terminals by warlords, the explusion of 40,000 mainly black Libyans from their homes, and the killing of 46 protesters on the streets of Tripoli in one incident — ignored by the states that supposedly went to war to protect civilians.

Pirate


Definition:

  • (n.) A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor.
  • (n.) An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.
  • (n.) One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.
  • (v. i.) To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.
  • (v. t.) To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chew on this during the change: TBS notes that the Pirates are 69-17 when they score four or more runs....gulp.
  • (2) The Pirate Bay is one of the world's longest-running and biggest filesharing sites.
  • (3) Although unlicensed in the UK, because it uses satellites operated from Luxembourg, not unlike pirate radio, it is allowed to start unchallenged.
  • (4) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you’ll marry a music man Ballerina, you must have seen her, dancing in the sand And now she’s in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand For a moment it seemed possible that the person about to get out of the plane was a man of subtle taste and kindness, a man who could appreciate such beauty, who was secure enough in himself to set his arrival in Sacramento to the soundtrack of a 45-year-old song by a gay troubadour.
  • (5) "They had taken some Iranian and Pakistani hostages so we had to separate them from the pirate suspects," said Lieutenant Commander Claus Krum, a veteran of five piracy missions.
  • (6) The Edinburgh-born actor Lindsay Duncan, 58, who played Baroness Thatcher in a recent BBC TV film, was appointed a CBE, as was Welsh-born Jonathan Pryce, 62, who has recently appeared in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films.
  • (7) 10.35pm BST Cardinals 2 - Pirates 1, top of the 9th Freese grounds out to Pedro Alvarez at third, who makes quick work of it to get it to third before Freese reaches.
  • (8) Although it's not nearly as surprising as the Pittsburgh Pirates fighting toward the playoffs after 20 years of losing seasons , or the Kansas City Royals playing meaningful, September baseball for the first time in over a decade , but since stealing manager John Farrell away from the Toronto Blue Jays, the Red Sox have established themselves as the best team in the American League despite preseason predictions dooming them to repeat as the worst.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.40am BST Pirates 5 - Reds 1, top of 7th On a 2-2 count, the crowd are up looking for Liriano's sixth strikeout of the night - they don't get it, but they do get ground ball out number 13 on a roller to third base which then heads over to first and retires the side.
  • (10) Mr Justice Arnold said in a written judgment: "In my judgment, the operators of [The Pirate Bay] do authorise its users' infringing acts of copying and communication to the public.
  • (11) When still a teenager O'Dwyer set up a website, TVShack, which posted links to pirated material.
  • (12) According to sources, the international coalition that has been spearheading the fight against the pirates drew up contingency plans in the summer of 2010, and again last year, for what was termed "over the beach" air strikes against Somali camps.
  • (13) When the Pirates (2-1) beat the St Louis Cardinals (1-2) in game three of the National League Divisional Series on Sunday afternoon, they positioned themselves to finally make a return visit to the NLCS.
  • (14) That ship has already sailed, carrying more than just pirates.
  • (15) It is being billed as a reunion for the team behind the multi-billion dollar Pirates of the Caribbean film series – star Johnny Depp , producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski.
  • (16) The decision follows prolonged behind-the-scenes lobbying by the music and film industries to get Google to demote the search position of sites which they say infringe their copyrights, such as the Pirate Bay.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.11pm BST Cardinals 2 - Pirates 0, top of the 8th Justin Wilson strikes out Matt Adams and now here's when things really starting to get interesting as Wacha is six outs away from a postseason no-hitter.
  • (18) "He is a pirate king of the Sahara," Jon Marks, a specialist in the region at the Chatham House thinktank, said after the gas plant attack.
  • (19) Another man in a pirate hat covered in voodoo dolls approached the screen, placing a live rooster on the stage as if offering it to the football gods.
  • (20) For assassination attempts, oil spills, pirates and a hellish inferno outside Waco, Texas – read on.