Corsair vs. Pirate: What's the Difference?

Corsair and Pirate Definitions
Corsair
A pirate or privateer, especially along the Barbary Coast.
Pirate
One who commits or practices piracy at sea.
Corsair
A swift pirate ship, often operating with official sanction.
Pirate
One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.
Corsair
A French privateer, especially from the port of Saint-Malo.
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Pirate
One who illegally intercepts or uses radio or television signals, especially one who operates an illegal television or radio station.
Corsair
A privateer or pirate in general.
Pirate
To attack and rob (a ship at sea).
Corsair
The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality.
Pirate
To take (something) by piracy.
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Corsair
A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.
Pirate
To make use of or reproduce (another's work) without authorization.
Corsair
A Californian market fish (Sebastes rosaceus).
Pirate
To act as a pirate; practice piracy.
Corsair
A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
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Pirate
A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
Corsair
A piratical vessel.
Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean.
Pirate
An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
Corsair
A Californian market fish (Sebastichthys rosaceus).
Pirate
(by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
Corsair
A pirate along the Barbary coast
Pirate
(ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
Corsair
A swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)
Pirate
A kind of marble in children's games.
Pirate
(transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
Pirate
To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
Pirate
To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
Pirate
(intransitive) To engage in piracy.
He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
Pirate
To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
Pirate
Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
Pirate
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.
Pirate
An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.
Pirate
One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.
Pirate
To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.
Pirate
To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.
They advertised they would pirate his edition.
Pirate
Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
Pirate
Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
Pirate
A ship manned by pirates
Pirate
Copy illegally; of published material
Pirate
Take arbitrarily or by force;
The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami