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Definitions: Hijacking |
HijackingAdjective1. Stopping and stealing or stealing from a vehicle in transit: "hijacking gangs after truckloads of cigarettes". Noun1. Robbery of a traveller or vehicle by force. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Public Administration | Illegal, violent action committed mainly in an airplane, for private or political ends. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: HijackingSynonym: highjacking (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hijacking |
| Specialty definitions using "hijacking": relay rape, reverse domain hijacking. (references) |
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Screenplays | I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking. (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie.) Oh well that explains the hijacking! (Bandits; writing credit: Harley Peyton) | |
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Business | Also, after the unfortunate hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814 from Kathmandu, the GoI plans to buy sophisticated security equipment for all airports. (references) | |
Subsequent to the hijacking of an IA flight in December 1999, and the crash of an Alliance Air plane in July 2000, the MoCA was hurriedly pushing ahead with its plans for procurement of safety/security equipment, acquisition of new planes and modernization of CNS/ATM equipment at all domestic airports. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Sri Lanka | In the past, the LTTE disrupted the movement of IDP's from Trincomalee to Jaffna by hijacking or attacking civilian shipping, although there were no such reports this year. (references) |
Economic History | South Africa | With the increasing loss of cars due to theft and hijacking, a great need exists for vehicle security systems. (references) |
Pakistan | Political parties have not been banned, but a couple of dozen ruling party members remain detained, with Sharif and five colleagues facing charges of attempted hijacking. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | In October 2000, the appeals court upheld Nawaz Sharif's convictions for hijacking and terrorism but combined them into one offense. (references) |
Pakistan | A First Incident Report was filed on November 10, 1999, which charged Sharif with attempted murder, hijacking, and criminal conspiracy. (references) | |
Brazil | In a nationally televised bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro in June 2000, police wounded a hostage while attempting to shoot the hijacker. (references) | |
Political Economy | Nepal | In December 1999, the hijacking of an Indian airliner as it left Nepali air space caused a downturn in bilateral relations. (references) |
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| "Hijacking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 59.52% of the time. "Hijacking" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 59.52% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.71% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "hijacking": reverse domain hijacking. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
baghdad hijacking session | 20 |
hijacking | 16 |
browser hijacking | 13 |
hijacking modem | 11 |
hijacking hun | 8 |
domain hijacking | 5 |
hijacking home page | 4 |
car hijacking | 4 |
session hijacking | 4 |
hijacking plane | 4 |
hijacking ip tcp | 3 |
computer hijacking | 2 |
link hijacking | 2 |
airplane hijacking | 2 |
achille hijacking lauro | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "hijacking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 劫机 (hijack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přepadení (assault, attack, capture, hold up, onslaught), únos (abduction, hijack, kidnapping, rape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | flykapring. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kaping. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lentokonekaappaus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | piraterie aérienne, otage, détournement d'avion. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entführung (abduction, elopement, hijack, kidnapping, ravishment, snatch), Flugzeugentführung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αεροπειρατεία (hijack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | repülőgép-eltérítés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penculikan (abduction, kidnapping), pembegalan (misappropriation, robbery), pembajakan (plowing, plundering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dirottamento aereo, dirottamento (change of course, deviation, diversion, skyjacking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공중납치. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ijackinghay sequestro (deposit, deprivation of personal freedom, sequester, sequestra, sequestration, sequestrum), seqüestrar um avião, desvio (aberrance, aberration, alternate route, alternation, alternative route, alternative routing, branch line, break, by-pass, canting, crossroad, deflection, deflexion, demerge, departure, detour, deviance, deviate, deviation, deviousness, digression, diverge, diversity, drift, fore-and-aft vibration, junction, leakage, longitudinal vibration, meander, misapplication, offset, range, relief road, re-routing, roundabout, set, shunt, sidetrack, siding, slip, span, surge, switch, transverse vibration, trap, turn, turnabout, turning, veering, x-axis vibration), assalto mão armada (armed robbery, felony). (various references) угон самолета, ограбление (depredation, despoilment, despoliation, loot, pillage, robbery, stickup). (various references) secuestro (abduction, deposit, deprivation of personal freedom, distraint, hijack, kidnapping, seizure, sequestration, sequestrum), piratería aérea. (various references) kapning (hijack). (various references) hırsızlık (burglary, heist, hijack, larceny, pilferage, rip off, robbery, shoplifting, shop-lifting, steal, theft, thievery), uçak kaçırma (hijack, skyjack, skyjacking), gasp (disseisin, disseizin, extortion, grab, hijack, rape, seizure, spoliation, usurpation, wrest). (various references) напад (assault, attack, foray, hold up, insult, offence, offense, onfall, onrush, onset, onslaught), пограбування (depredation, despoliation, loot, pillage, pillaging, ransack, rape, ravishment, robbery, sackage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "hijacking": hijackings. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hijacking" (pronounced hī"ja'king) |
| 5 | -j a' k i ng | carjacking. |
| 4 | -a' k i ng | backtracking, kayaking, meatpacking, piggybacking, quarterbacking, ransacking, wisecracking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, racking, raking, ranking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-j-k-n" | |
-2 letters: hacking, jacking. | |
-3 letters: aching, caking, gaijin, hijack, hiking. | |
-4 letters: acing, acini, chain, chang, china, chink, icing, kanji, kiang. | |
-5 letters: agin, akin, ankh, cain, chia, chin, gain, gink, hack, haik, haji, hang, hank, hick, inch, inia, jack, jink, kain, khan, kina, king, nick, nigh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-j-k-n" | |
+1 letter: hijackings. | |
+2 letters: highjacking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 6A 61 63 6B 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. .--- .- -.-. -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01101010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i j a c k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 006A 0061 0063 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)427576676977758073 |
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