Sailor vs. Pirate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Sailor and Pirate
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Sailor
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a man who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. The profession of the sailor is old, and the term sailor has its etymological roots in a time when sailing ships were the main mode of transport at sea, but it now refers to the personnel of all watercraft regardless of the mode of transport, and encompasses people who operate ships professionally, as a sport or recreationally.
Pirate
One who commits or practices piracy at sea.
Sailor
A person whose job it is to work as a member of the crew of a commercial or naval ship or boat, especially one who is below the rank of officer
Hawaii was an important stopping point for sailors to restock provisions
Pirate
One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.
Sailor
A person who serves in a navy or works on a ship.
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Pirate
One who illegally intercepts or uses radio or television signals, especially one who operates an illegal television or radio station.
Sailor
A person who operates a sailboat.
Pirate
To attack and rob (a ship at sea).
Sailor
A low-crowned straw hat with a flat top and flat brim.
Pirate
To take (something) by piracy.
Sailor
A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels
Pirate
To make use of or reproduce (another's work) without authorization.
Sailor
Someone knowledgeable in the practical management of ships.
He's a talented sailor and has spent many years at sea.
Pirate
To act as a pirate; practice piracy.
Sailor
A member of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
Pirate
A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
Sailor
A person who sails sailing boats as a sport or recreation.
Pirate
An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
Sailor
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.
Pirate
(by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
Sailor
One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
Pirate
(ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
Sailor
Any member of a ship's crew
Pirate
A kind of marble in children's games.
Sailor
A serviceman in the navy
Pirate
(transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
Sailor
A stiff straw hat with a flat crown
Pirate
To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
Pirate
To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
Pirate
(intransitive) To engage in piracy.
He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
Pirate
To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
Pirate
Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
Pirate
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.
Pirate
An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.
Pirate
One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.
Pirate
To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.
Pirate
To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.
They advertised they would pirate his edition.
Pirate
Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
Pirate
Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
Pirate
A ship manned by pirates
Pirate
Copy illegally; of published material
Pirate
Take arbitrarily or by force;
The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami
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