stealth

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  1. noun The act of moving, proceeding, or acting in a covert way.
  2. noun The quality or characteristic of being furtive or covert.
  3. noun Archaic The act of stealing.
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  • Doc could move with uncanny stealth--he had perfected this ability by studying the methods of masters of stealth, the hunting carnivora of the jungles. —  010 - The Phantom City
  • The kind of stealth that the ancients had actually changed the ship itself (or whatever the stealth was applied to). —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
  • Apologies for our stealth, he says, pulling back his hood. —  Blather.net newsfeed
  • Consider the level of stealth, and the brazen reliance on how easy it is to handle a sleepy child. —  Blogger News Network
  • New technologies including a different hull type and new superstructure for improved stealth, all-electric power that could drive futuristic weapons, its AGS 155mm long-range guns, improved weapon launch systems, and a new approach to onboard computing. —  Defense Industry Daily
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English stelth, probably from Old English *stǣlth.

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  1. Early modern English also stelth; from Middle English stelthe, stalthe (=Icelandic stuldr = Swedish stölä), stealth, with abstract formative -th, from Anglo-Saxon stēlan, steal: see steal. Another form, from the Scandinavian, is stouth. The older noun was stale. Cf. health, heal, wealth, weal.
 

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