Corsair vs. Pirate
Difference Between Corsair and Pirate
Corsairnoun
A French privateer, especially from the port of St-Malo
Piratenoun
A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.Corsairnoun
A privateer or pirate in general
Piratenoun
An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
Corsairnoun
The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality
Piratenoun
One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission
Corsairnoun
A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.
Piratenoun
(ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
Corsairnoun
A Californian market fish (Sebastes rosaceus).
Piratenoun
A kind of marble in children's games.
Corsairnoun
a pirate along the Barbary coast
Pirateverb
(transitive) To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.
They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.Corsairnoun
a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)
Pirateverb
To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
Pirateverb
To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of
Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.Pirateverb
(intransitive) To engage in piracy.
He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.Pirateadjective
Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
Piratenoun
someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
Piratenoun
someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
Piratenoun
a ship manned by pirates
Pirateverb
copy illegally; of published material
Pirateverb
take arbitrarily or by force;
The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami
