(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.
Thief
Definition:
(n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
(n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
(2) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
(3) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
(4) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
(5) A suspected jewel thief was killed and another seriously injured during a police chase after an attempted ram raid at one of the London branches of the jewellers Tiffany and Co yesterday.
(6) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(7) In my part of the world, we have a saying that the man who carries a pot of palm oil from the ceiling is not the only thief.
(8) Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, suggested Greenwald was a “thief” after he worked with news organizations who paid for stories based on the documents.
(9) Gina Rinehart's son, John Hancock, called his youngest sister "an oxygen thief", a Sydney court heard during the latest battle over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust.
(10) The criminals For many years after the second world war, George “Taters” Chatham was Britain’s busiest jewel thief.
(11) Procrastination is the thief of time.” Last week, the chancellor echoed the exact same sentiments – “the sooner you start the smoother the ride” – as he announced a raft of Whitehall spending cuts as a down payment on the £25bn he’s planning to spend over the next three years.
(12) Ibori, a petty thief who rose to be one of Nigeria’s richest men, received a 13-year jail sentence in London in 2012 after admitting fraud of nearly £50m.
(13) Holder was fatally shot in the city’s East Harlem neighborhood while pursuing a bicycle thief.
(14) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
(15) A few synaptic contacts between two adjacent chief cells are seen, and so are direct contacts between thief cells and preganglionic efferent nerve fibers terminating on ganglion cells.
(16) Incidentally, these sad long-term cases will do more than twice the maximum any court can sentence a thief to on Community Payback.
(17) You can wait until a cop gets here,” Bike Batman said he told the thief.
(18) The thief left the building unnoticed, then returned the artwork the next day by throwing it over the wall of the sculpture garden.
(19) But presumably the Sun also believes that you shouldn’t point out there’s a fire down the road if your own house isn’t burning down, and you should never chase after a thief who robbed the woman next to you if your own wallet is still safely secured in your pocket.
(20) He also called the incumbent president a “genocidaire”, a thief and a pyromaniac in a Facebook post that led to Bongo opening proceedings against him.