Angler vs. Pirate

Anglernoun

A person who fishes with a hook and line.

‘A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.’;

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.’;

Anglernoun

An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius.

‘The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.’;

Piratenoun

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

Anglernoun

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

‘''Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year.’;

Piratenoun

One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission

Anglernoun

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

Piratenoun

(ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.

Anglernoun

One who angles.

Piratenoun

A kind of marble in children's games.

Anglernoun

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.

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.’;

Anglernoun

a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage

Pirateverb

To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of

Anglernoun

a fisherman who uses a hook and line

Pirateverb

To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of

‘Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.’;

Anglernoun

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

Pirateverb

(intransitive) To engage in piracy.

‘He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.’;

Anglernoun

a person who fishes with a rod and line

‘a carp angler’;

Pirateadjective

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

Anglernoun

short for anglerfish

Piratenoun

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.

Piratenoun

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

Piratenoun

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

Pirateverb

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

Pirateverb

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

‘They advertised they would pirate his edition.’;

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’;