Pirates - English meaning

adjective

Suitable or proper in the circumstances.

Usage examples:

This isn't the appropriate time or place

verb

Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

Usage examples:

The accused had appropriated the property

Suitable for a particular person, place, or situation

adjective

(of alcoholic drink or a recording) made, distributed, or sold illegally.

Usage examples:

Bootleg cassettes

verb

Make, distribute, or sell (alcoholic drink or a recording) illegally.

Usage examples:

He amassed a fortune bootlegging whisky

noun

An illegal musical recording, especially one made at a concert.

noun

A pirate, originally one operating in the caribbean.

Usage examples:

The marauding buccaneers who used to terrorize the mediterranean coasts

noun

A business person who is determined to succeed even if this involves taking big risks

Usage examples:

These mercantile buccaneers are always wildly in favour of the free market.

noun

A pirate.

Usage examples:

Reputations spread through any community, and the pirates and corsairs knew who they wanted to work…

noun

A pirate (= person who sails in a ship and attacks other ships in order to steal from them), especially one given permission by a government to attack enemy ships in the 16th - 18th centuries in the southern mediterranean

noun

A child's bed with barred or latticed sides; a cot.

Usage examples:

Tiptoeing over to the crib, he looked down at the sleeping child

verb

Short for cribbage.

Usage examples:

He would play crib with zest

noun

An action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.

Usage examples:

The bill was defeated by a senate filibuster in june

verb

Act in an obstructive manner in a legislative assembly, especially by speaking at inordinate length.

Usage examples:

He was one of four tories who filibustered for more than 30 minutes each to derail the free parking…

noun

(in a legislature) a way of preventing a law from being passed by using the rules or making long speeches to delay voting on it

Usage examples:

[ i ] the senator threatened to filibuster if jobs in his state were not protected.

noun

A pirate or lawless adventurer.

Usage examples:

Powerful merchant companies drove the process forward, and on the outermost fringe or cutting edge …

verb

Raise to a higher position or level.

Usage examples:

He lifted his trophy over his head

noun

A platform or compartment housed in a shaft for raising and lowering people or things to different levels.

Usage examples:

Alice went up to the second floor in the lift

verb

To move something from a lower to a higher position

Usage examples:

[ t ] i can’t lift you up – you’re a big boy now!, [ i always + adv/prep ] the top of the stool lif…

noun

A person who marauds; a raider.

Usage examples:

A band of english marauders were surprised and overcome

noun

A person or animal that goes from one place to another looking for people to kill or things to steal or destroy

noun

A pirate.

Usage examples:

The marooners who escaped carried their wanton ravages to other parts of the world.

noun

A small cut or notch.

Usage examples:

A small nick on his wrist

verb

Make a nick or nicks in.

Usage examples:

He had nicked himself while shaving

verb

Go quickly or surreptitiously.

Usage examples:

They nicked across the road

noun

A rogue or scoundrel.

Usage examples:

The words typically used in english translation, ‘rogue,’ ‘picaroon,’ ‘knave,’ etc., do not have th…

verb

Grip (something, typically a person's flesh) tightly and sharply between finger and thumb.

Usage examples:

She pinched his cheek

noun

An act of pinching someone.

Usage examples:

He gave her a gentle pinch

verb

Squeeze tightly between the fingers

verb

Take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own.

Usage examples:

He was fined $6,000 for having plagiarized the song

verb

To use another person’s idea or a part of that person's work and pretend that it is your own

Usage examples:

She’s been accused of plagiarism.

verb

Cook (an egg) without its shell in or over boiling water.

Usage examples:

A breakfast of poached egg and grilled bacon

verb

Illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own or in contravention of official protection.

Usage examples:

20 tigers are thought to have been poached from national parks

verb

To cook something in water or another liquid that is almost boiling

Usage examples:

Poached eggs, [ t ] anybody you see with a piece of ivory has poached it., [ i ] foreign fishing bo…

noun

An armed ship owned and crewed by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of merchant shipping.

Usage examples:

She was captured by a french 44-gun privateer

noun

A person who attacks an enemy in their territory; a marauder.

Usage examples:

Scandinavian raiders put down their roots in cumbria

noun

→  corporate raider

Usage examples:

Pennsylvania's tough anti-takeover law is designed to prevent raiders from harming shareholders.

noun

→  corporate raider

Usage examples:

Pennsylvania's tough anti-takeover law is designed to prevent raiders from harming shareholders.

noun

A person who spends their time wandering.

Usage examples:

They became rovers who departed further and further from civilization

noun

A pirate.

noun

A person or machine that makes roves of fibre.

verb

Take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.

Usage examples:

Thieves stole her bicycle

noun

A bargain.

Usage examples:

At £59.95 it's an absolute steal

verb

Take without the owner's consent