(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.
Sailor
Definition:
(n.) One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Separation of the methyl esters was performed on columns of 10% sailor on Chromosorb.
(2) "I don't know why," he says, but it's something that didn't even happen at his lowest ebb: amid the bleakness of the early 70s, he somehow kept sporadically producing incredible songs: Til I Die, This Whole World, Sail On Sailor… There's always touring, however.
(3) The great god Pan is dead, as a voice was heard to cry by sailors in the age of the Roman emperor Augustus.
(4) This is a haven for sailors from near and far, and filled with locals whose faces you might recognise from Howards' Way.
(5) The releases, including that of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, coincided with the end of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, and came days after the release of 10 American sailors briefly detained by the Revolutionary Guard.
(6) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(7) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
(8) A set of factors of ship's environment greatly affected the onset of diseases in sailors.
(9) The peculiarities of the circulatory functions were examined in sailors following nautical voyages of varying duration and directly on board during a 6-month cruise.
(10) The rejection of contentious themes resulted in a domestic drama in which Ellida's sexual rejection of her husband and her obsession with the lost sailor is steered towards an uplifting conclusion.
(11) Manouchehr Mottaki told the Associated Press that Britain must admit that its sailors entered Iranian waters for the standoff to be resolved.
(12) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
(13) Beastly Brits Dom: This show should have been called “British people are awful”, which is what Owen says when they spot Kevin on what had to be the campest video-game launch in history (hello sailors!).
(14) Use of interrater agreement as a reliability index and two cutoff points for the partition of the sample resulted in the elimination of about one-third of the initial sampl and the formation of two subsamples-the "sick" (N equals 45) and "not sick" (N equals 73) sailors.
(15) Several sailors were rescued from a yacht off the coast of Kent and from a dinghy in Portsmouth harbour.
(16) Iran dramatically raised the stakes in its tense diplomatic stand-off with Britain last night, broadcasting a propaganda video of the British sailors and marines seized last week, including a "confession" that they had entered Iranian waters.
(17) Last month General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the chief of the defence staff, warned that manpower was increasingly seen as an "overhead" and that Britain was in danger of being left with hollowed-out armed forces boasting "exquisite" equipment but lacking the soldiers, sailors and airmen needed to operate it.
(18) In Terry's recording from 1969, one black sailor describes how, "when they caught a brother with an Afro, they just took him down to the brig and cut all his hair off and throw him in jail.
(19) Prince Felipe, who competed as a sailor at the 1992 Barcelona Games, repeated the mantra that Madrid's bid "made sense" because 80% of the venues were already built.
(20) The International Sailing Federation said just over 7% of sailors competing at a mid-August Olympic warm-up event in Guanabara Bay fell ill but the federation has not conducted a full count of how many athletes got sick in the two weeks following the competition, the rough incubation period for many of the pathogens in the water.