'Steal' definitions:
Definition of 'steal'
(from WordNet)
noun
An advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn: bargain, buy, steal]
noun
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
Take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"
verb
Move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the darkness" [syn: steal, slip]
verb
Steal a base
Definition of 'Steal'
From: GCIDE
- Steal \Steal\ (st[=e]l), n. [See Stale a handle.] A handle; a stale, or stele. [Archaic or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- And in his hand a huge poleax did bear. Whose steale was iron-studded but not long. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Steal'
From: GCIDE
- Steal \Steal\ (st[=e]l), v. t. [imp. Stole (st[=o]l); p. p. Stolen (st[=o]"l'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Stealing.] [OE. stelen, AS. stelan; akin to OFries. stela, D. stelen, OHG. stelan, G. stehlen, Icel. stela, SW. stj[aum]la, Dan. stiaele, Goth. stilan.]
- 1. To take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another. [1913 Webster]
- Maugre thy heed, thou must for indigence Or steal, or beg, or borrow, thy dispense. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- The man who stole a goose and gave away the giblets in alms. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate. [1913 Webster]
- They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- He will steal himself into a man's favor. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To gain by insinuating arts or covert means. [1913 Webster]
- So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. --2 Sam. xv. 6. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away. [1913 Webster]
- Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look. [1913 Webster]
- Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal it. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- To steal a march, to march in a covert way; to gain an advantage unobserved; -- formerly followed by of, but now by on or upon, and sometimes by over; as, to steal a march upon one's political rivals. [1913 Webster]
- She yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy. --Smollett. [1913 Webster]
- Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea. --Walpole. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To filch; pilfer; purloin; thieve. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Steal'
From: GCIDE
- Steal \Steal\ (st[=e]l), v. i.
- 1. To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt not steal. --Ex. xx. 15. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Fixed of mind to avoid further entreaty, and to fly all company, one night she stole away. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- From whom you now must steal, and take no leave. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A soft and solemn breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich, distilled perfumes, And stole upon the air. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'steal'
From: GCIDE
- Stale \Stale\ (st[=a]l), n. [OE. stale, stele, AS. stael, stel; akin to LG. & D. steel, G. stiel; cf. L. stilus stake, stalk, stem, Gr. steleo`n a handle, and E. stall, stalk, n.] The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake. [Written also steal, stele, etc.] [1913 Webster]
- But seeing the arrow's stale without, and that the head did go No further than it might be seen. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]