Angler vs. Pirate — What's the Difference?

A person who fishes with a rod and line

One who commits or practices piracy at sea.

One who fishes with a hook.

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

A scheming person.

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

An anglerfish.

To attack and rob (a ship at sea).

A person who fishes with a hook and line.

To take (something) by piracy.

An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius.

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

Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.

To act as a pirate; practice piracy.

A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.

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

One who angles.

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

A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

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

A scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage

(ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.

A fisherman who uses a hook and line

A kind of marble in children's games.

Fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

(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;