steal

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.
2. v. To present or use (someone else's words or ideas) as one's own.
3. v. To get or take secretly or artfully: steal a look at a diary; steal the puck from an opponent.
4. v. To give or enjoy (a kiss) that is unexpected or unnoticed.
5. v. To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer: The magician's assistant stole the show with her comic antics.
6. v. Baseball To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a base hit, walk, passed ball, or wild pitch.
7. v. To commit theft.
8. v. To move, happen, or elapse stealthily or unobtrusively.
9. v. Baseball To steal a base.
10. n. The act of stealing.
11. n. Slang A bargain.
12. n. Baseball A stolen base.
13. n. Basketball An act of gaining possession of the ball from an opponent.
14. idiom. steal (someone's) thunder To use, appropriate, or preempt the use of another's idea, especially to one's own advantage and without consent by the originator.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To take feloniously; take and carry off clandestinely, and without right or leave; appropriate to one's own uses dishonestly, or without right, permission, or authority: as applied to persons, to kidnap; abduct: as, to steal some one's purse; to steal cattle; to steal a child.
2. To remove, withdraw, or abstract secretly or stealthily.
3. To smuggle, literally or figuratively.
4. To take or assume without right.
5. To obtain surreptitiously, or by stealth or surprise: as, to steal a kiss.
6. To entice or win by insidious arts or secret means.
7. To perform, procure, or effect in a stealthy or underhand way; perform secretly; conceal the doing, performance, or accomplishment of.
8. To move furtively and slyly: as, she stole her hand into his.
9. In base-ball, to secure, as a base or run, without an error by one's opponents or a base-hit by the batter; to run successfully to, as from one base to the next, in spite of the efforts of one's opponents: as, to steal second base: sometimes used intransitively with to: as, to steal to second base.
10. In netting, to take away (a mesh) by netting into two meshes of the preceding row at once.
11. Synonyms To filch, pilfer, purloin, embezzle. See pillage, n.
12. To practise or be guilty of theft.
13. To move stealthily or secretly; creep softly; pass, approach, or withdraw surreptitiously and unperceived; go or come furtively; slip or creep along insidiously, silently, or unperceived; make insinuating approach: as, to Steal into the house at dusk; the fox stole away: sometimes used reflexively.
14. n. An act or a case of: theft: as, an official steal; specifically, in baseball. a stolen or furtive run from one base to another: as, a steal to third base. See steal, transitive verb, 9.
15. n. Same as stale.
16. In cricket, to gain (a run) and increase the score because of the slowness of the fielders: said of the batsman.
17. In golf, to hole (a long, unlikely putt) so that the ball just drops into the hole.
18. n. In golf, a long putt which wins a hole.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To illegally, or without the owner's permission, take possession of something by surreptitiously taking or carrying it away.
2. v. transitive To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
3. v. transitive To copy copyright-protected work without permission.
4. v. transitive, colloquial To acquire at a low price.
5. v. transitive To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
6. v. intransitive To move silently or secretly.
7. v. 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.
8. v. sports, transitive To dispossess
9. n. The act of stealing.
10. n. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
11. n. basketball, ice hockey A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
12. n. baseball A stolen base.
13. n. curling Scoring in an end without the hammer.
14. n. computing A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Archaic or Prov. Eng. A handle; a stale, or stele.
2. v. To take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully.
3. v. To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
4. v. To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
5. v. To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
6. v. To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly.
7. v. To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
8. v. To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an advantageous purchase
2. n. 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)
3. v. take without the owner's consent
4. v. steal a base
5. v. move stealthily