Difference between Pirate and Highjack

What is the difference between Pirate and Highjack?

Pirate as a verb is to appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea. while Highjack as a verb is to forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).

Pirate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Illegaly imitated or reproduced, said of a well-known trademarked product or work subject to copyright protection and the counterfeit itself.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea. To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of To engage in piracy.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns. One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission

Highjack

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.

We hope you now know whether to use Pirate or Highjack in your sentence.

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