The instance of such an act; the seizure of a vehicle.
Used in a Sentence
hijacking
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hijacking.
Editorial note
Wikipedia's ideological hijacking is a serious problem and arguably represents the biggest threat to Wikipedia's longterm legitimacy.
Examples18
Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
The instance of such an act; the seizure of a vehicle.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of hijacking gathered in one view.
The act of one who hijacks (in any sense).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for hijacking.
noun
The instance of such an act; the seizure of a vehicle.
noun
The act of one who hijacks (in any sense).
Example sentences
Wikipedia's ideological hijacking is a serious problem and arguably represents the biggest threat to Wikipedia's longterm legitimacy.
Disabling default zoom behavior is like hijacking the scroll bar - bad, ugly and puts users off.
Would it take a malicious hacker hijacking a plane and killing all 200 passengers/crew on board to fix the problem?
Could be good session hijacking protection, especially for applications that require regular interaction anyway.
Sorry for hijacking the topic a bit, but I don't think it will be Seattle.
And none of this excuses hijacking DNS to offer parental controls.
OT but this is not the first comment to I don't think I am hijacking.
Of course care would need to be taken here: if you share cookies from sites that take authentication you could open up session hijacking vulnerabilities.
At least leave some feedback for the post you're hijacking..
The background animation is beautiful though I'm not a fan of scroll hijacking.
DNS hijacking certainly is not mandated by law.
Sorry for hijacking your insightful comment, +1.
Quote examples
Notice the hijacking of the term "living wage", rather than calling it what it is, a bump to minimum wage.
Dismissing it outright in favor of a paid or self-hosted option just because you didn't google "how to prevent analytics hijacking" is bad decision-making.
I can't tell if they're hijacking the term "greylisting" for something really new or are completely ignorant of the fact that people have been doing greylisting for spam control for a decade or more.
(Think of it as several different kinds of "endianess." There would be a coin-flip for each molecule type with chirality.) So at worst, if we ate each other, we'd give each other molecular "indigestion." More complicated operations, like that of viruses hijacking our cells to replicate themselves are probably right out.
Proper noun examples
Hijacking this thread - if anyone used the official media creation tool to get a x86_64 Professional ISO, can you please post MD5/SHA1 hashes?
Hijacking: how do I read Usenet for free, if there is such a thing?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use hijacking in a sentence?
Wikipedia's ideological hijacking is a serious problem and arguably represents the biggest threat to Wikipedia's longterm legitimacy.
What does hijacking mean?
The instance of such an act; the seizure of a vehicle.
What part of speech is hijacking?
hijacking is commonly used as noun.