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steal
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)
- (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."
- (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- (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.
- (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
- (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- (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.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:
- (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
- (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.
- (sports, transitive) To dispossess
- (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)
- The act of stealing.
- A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
- At this price, this car is a steal.
- (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- (baseball) A stolen base.
- (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- (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
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recall
English
Alternative forms
- recal (obsolete)
- (to call again): re-call
Etymology
From re- +? call, probably modelled on Latin revoc?re, French rappeler, English withcall.
Pronunciation
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???k??l/
- (General American) enPR: r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA(key): /???k?l/, /?i?k?l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- Hyphenation: re?call
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??i?k??l/
- (General American) enPR: ?r??kôl, r??kôl, r??kôl, IPA(key): /??i?k?l/, /?i?k?l/, /???k?l/
- Rhymes: -i?k??l, -??l
- Hyphenation: re?call
Verb
recall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). [from 16th c.]
- Synonyms: withcall; see also Thesaurus:recant
- (transitive) To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again, to call another time. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product). [from 20th c.]
Translations
Noun
recall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)
- The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- Synonym: sensitivity
Translations
Further reading
- product recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- recall (memory) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- recall election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- precision and recall on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- caller, cellar
Portuguese
Noun
recall m (plural recalls)
- recall (return of faulty products)
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- what recalls
- what recall means
- what recall on dog food
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- what recall an email means
- what recall on metformin
- what recalls the history of the early church
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