Corsair vs. Pirate: What's the Difference?

A pirate or privateer, especially along the Barbary Coast.

One who commits or practices piracy at sea.

A swift pirate ship, often operating with official sanction.

One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.

A French privateer, especially from the port of Saint-Malo.

One who illegally intercepts or uses radio or television signals, especially one who operates an illegal television or radio station.

A privateer or pirate in general.

To attack and rob (a ship at sea).

The ship of privateers or pirates, especially of French nationality.

To take (something) by piracy.

A nocturnal assassin bug of the genus Rasahus, found in the southern USA.

To make use of or reproduce (another's work) without authorization.

A Californian market fish (Sebastes rosaceus).

To act as a pirate; practice piracy.

A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.

A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

A piratical vessel.

An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.

A Californian market fish (Sebastichthys rosaceus).

(by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.

A pirate along the Barbary coast

(ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.

A swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction)

A kind of marble in children's games.

(transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.

To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.

To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.

(intransitive) To engage in piracy.

To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.

Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.

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.

An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.

One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.

To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.

To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.

Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

A ship manned by pirates

Copy illegally; of published material

Take arbitrarily or by force;