steal

Significat

Verb

1. To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
2. To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
3. To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
4. (colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
5. To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
6. To move silently or secretly.
7. To convey (something) clandestinely.
8. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
9. 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.
10. To dispossess
11. (informal) To borrow for a short moment.
12. (informal) take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing

Noun

1. The act of stealing.
2. (slang) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price.
3. A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
4. A stolen base.
5. Scoring in an end without the hammer.
6. A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/stiːl/

Etimologia

From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-West Germanic *stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelaną.
Compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla, Norwegian Bokmål stjele, Norwegian Nynorsk stela, Sanskrit स्तेय (steya); see below for more.
For the meaning development compare with Russian красть (krastʹ, “to steal”) and Russian кра́сться (krástʹsja, “to stalk, to prowl, to slink”).
etymology notes
Proposed etymologies beyond Germanic are numerous and include
* Proto-Indo-European *ster-: compare Welsh herw (“theft, raid”), Ancient Greek στερέω (steréō, “to deprive of”)
* Proto-Indo-European *stel(H)- (“to stretch”): compare Albanian pë/mbështjell (“I confuse, mess up, mix, wrap up”), Old Church Slavonic стєлѭ (steljǫ, “I spread out (bed, roof)”), Ancient Greek τηλία (tēlía, “playing table”)
* Proto-Indo-European *tsel- (“to sneak”): compare Sanskrit त्सरति (tsárati, “creep, sneak up on”) and other forms under Pokorny 5. *sel- "schleichen, kriechen"