different between steal vs abactor

English

Etymology

From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelan? (compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla,Norwegian stjele); see below for more.

Pronunciation

• enPR: st?l, IPA^(key): /sti?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Homophones: steel, stele

Verb

steal (third-person singular simple present steals, present participle stealing, simple past stole, past participle stolen or (nonstandard, colloquial) stole)

1. (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
   • "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."

2. (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.

3. (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

   • Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind too often from its steady pursuit of any subject.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place

     Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, […] and do not think to steal it.

4. (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.

5. (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
6. (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:

     "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
7. (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
8. To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.

   • They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
9. (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.
10. (sports, transitive) To dispossess
11. (informal, transitive) To borrow for a short moment.

Synonyms

• (to illegally take possession of): See Thesaurus:steal
• (to secretly move): sneak

Antonyms

• (acquire licitly) receive, purchase, buy, earn
• (provide freely) donate, bestow, grant

Troponyms

• shoplift

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• burglarize
• burgle
• confiscate
• pickpocket
• pilfer
• steal away

Noun

steal (plural steals)

1. The act of stealing.
2. A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.

   At this price, this car is a steal.

3. (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
4. (baseball) A stolen base.
5. (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
6. (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

Synonyms

• (merchandise available at a very attractive price): (great / real / very good) bargain

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla

English

Alternative forms

• abacter

Etymology

From Late Latin abactor (“cattle rustler”), from abig? (“drive away”); from ab (“from, away from”) + ag? (“drive”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ?bæk.t?/, /æ?bæk.t?/

Noun

abactor (plural abactors)

1. (law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler. [Attested from the mid 17^th century until the early 19^th century.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:rustler

Hyponyms

• horse thief, sheepstealer, napper (obsolete)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• CATOBAR, acrobat

Latin

Etymology

From abig? (“drive away”), from ab (“from, away from”) + ag? (“drive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?ba?k.tor/, [ä?bä?kt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?bak.tor/, [??b?kt??r]

Noun

ab?ctor m (genitive ab?ct?ris); third declension

1. A cattle thief; abactor or rustler.
2. A man who abducts.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cattle thief): abige?tor, abigeus

Related terms

Descendants

• ? English: abactor
• ? Portuguese: abactor

References

• abactor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abactor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin abactor.

Pronunciation

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /a?bak(i)?to?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?b?kt?o?/
• Hyphenation: a?bac?tor

Noun

abactor m (plural abactores, feminine abactora, feminine plural abactoras)

1. abactor (cattle thief)

   Synonym: abígeo

Related terms

• abacto