Dictionary Definition
steal
Noun
1 an advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at
the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn:
bargain, buy]
2 a stolen base; an instance in which a base
runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the
help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
Verb
1 take without the owner's consent; "Someone
stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs
from my dissertation"
2 move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the
darkness" [syn: slip]
3 steal a base
4 to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of
sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot] [also: stolen, stole]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /stiːl/, /sti:l/
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- Rhymes with: -iːl
Homophones
Etymology
stelan.Verb
- To illegally, or
without the owner's
permission, take
possession of
something by surreptitiously taking or carrying it away.
- The government agents stole my money.
- Three irreplaceable paintings were stolen from the gallery.
- The government agents stole my money.
- To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- transitive colloquial To acquire at a
low price.
- He stole the car for two thousand less than its book value.
- To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer.
- To move silently or secretly.
- He stole across the room, trying not to wake her.
- In the context of "transitive|baseball": To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
Synonyms
Troponyms
Translations
to illegally take possession of
- Albanian: vjedh
- Arabic:
- Catalan: robar
- Chinese: 偷 (tōu)
- Croatian: krasti
- Czech: ukrást
- Dutch: stelen, ontvreemden, jatten
- Esperanto: ŝteli
- Finnish: varastaa, ryövätä
- French: voler
- German: stehlen, entwenden, coll. klauen
- Guaraní: monda
- Hebrew: גנב (ganav)
- Hungarian: lop
- Indonesian: curi
- Italian: rubare
- Japanese: 盗む
- Korean: 훔치다 (humchida)
- Kurdish:
- Latin: furari
- Mapudungun: weñen
- Norwegian: stjele
- Polish: kraść
- Portuguese: furtar
- Romanian: fura
- Russian: краcть (krast’), воровать
- Slovene: ukrasti
- Spanish: robar
- Swedish: stjäla, sno (informal), knycka (informal)
- Telugu: దొంగిలించు (doMgiliMcu)
to get or effect surreptitiously or artfully
to draw attention
to move silently
- Japanese: 忍び足をする
- Swedish: smyga
baseball: to advance safely during the pitch
- Finnish: kärkkyä
- Japanese: 盗塁する
See also
Noun
Synonyms
- sense cheap item bargain
Translations
a cheap item
- Dutch: koopje
- German: Schnäppchen
- Hebrew: מציאה
- Japanese: 掘り出し物
the act of stealing
a stolen base
- Japanese: 盗塁
Extensive Definition
The term steal can mean either:
- To commit theft
Or, in sports terminology:
- In baseball, to gain a stolen base
- In basketball, a steal occurs when the defensive player actively takes possession of the ball from the opponent's team
- In curling, a steal occurs when the team without the black hammer scores
Or, in computer
science:
- In database systems, steal refers to a policy a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs
Or refer to Steal, a
2002 action film
steal in Danish: Steal
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abstract, acquire, adopt, advantageous purchase,
and, annex, appropriate, assume, bag, bargain, boost, borrow, burglarize, burglary, buy, cabbage, caper, catch up, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clench, clinch, clout, clutch, collar, coon, cop, copy, couch, crawl, creep, crib, crook, defraud, derive from, drain off,
draw off, embezzle,
embrace, extort, filch, fleece, frisk, get, get away with, get hold of,
glide, glom on to, go on
tiptoe, good buy, good pennyworth, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grovel, gumshoe, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hug, imitate, inch, inch along, infringe, job, larceny, lay hands on, lay hold
of, lay wait, liberate,
lie in wait, lift, loot, lurk, make off with, make use of,
misappropriate,
mock, mooch, mouse, nab, nail, nick, nightwalk, nip, nip up, pad, palm, partake, peculate, pennyworth, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plagiarize, plunder, poach, pocket, possess, prig, prowl, purloin, purloining, pussyfoot, receive, rifle, rip-off, rob, robbery, run away with, rustle, scrabble, scramble, scrounge, seize, shadow, shanghai, shirk, shoplift, sidle, simulate, skulk, slide, slink, slip, snake, snap up, snare, snatch, sneak, snitch, stalk, steal along, stealage, stealing, swindle, swipe, take, take away, take by assault,
take by storm, take hold of, take on, take over, take possession,
theft, thieve, thievery, thieving, tippytoe, tiptoe, touch, usurp, vulture, walk off with, whip up,
worm, worm
along