different between carjack vs carrack

English

Alternative forms

• car-jack

Etymology

• Blend of car +? hijack

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??(?).d?æk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?æk/

Verb

carjack (third-person singular simple present carjacks, present participle carjacking, simple past and past participle carjacked)

1. (transitive) To steal an automobile forcibly from (someone).

   Someone should carjack that pompous jerk and teach him a lesson!

2. (transitive) To forcibly steal (a vehicle).

   These twerps have carjacked their last Mercedes.

Synonyms

• hijack

Derived terms

• carjacker
• carjacking

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• carack
• carrick

Etymology

From French caraque (compare Spanish and Portuguese carraca, Italian caracca), from Latin carraca, from Latin carrus (“wagon”); or perhaps from Arabic ?????????? (qar?q?r).

Noun

carrack (plural carracks)

1. (historical) A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.

   • Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carrack; if it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.

   • 2018, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal:

     Thereafter huge sailing carracks brought Indian pepper and cotton, Indonesian perfume and spice, Chinese silk and porcelain, to the royal trading house at Lisbon.

Synonyms

• nau

Translations