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Word: steal
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
- baseball A stolen base.
- hockey A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- computing A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs
- curling Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- The act of stealing.
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Verb:
- 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.
- intransitive To move silently or secretly.
- colloquial To acquire at a low price.
- transitive To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer.
- transitive To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- transitive To taking or carrying it away.
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