Tonal vs Hijack - What's the difference?
tonal | hijack |
Of or relating to tones or tonality.
(music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
(linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
* 1989 , Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean , page 122:
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).
To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
(computing) To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie.
(computing) To change software settings without a user's knowledge so as to force that user to visit a certain web site (to hijack a browser ).
(politics) To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle.
An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process.
(politics) An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions.
(poker slang) Preflop, the position two before the dealer.
As nouns the difference between tonal and hijack
is that tonal is an animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death while hijack is an instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle.As an adjective tonal
is of or relating to tones or tonality.As a verb hijack 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).tonal
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia tonal)Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* atonalEtymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* tona, tonalliNoun
(en noun)- When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.