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steal
has definitions from the fields of baseball,criminal law,sport,games
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[ verb ] (criminal law) take without the owner's consent
Examples "Someone stole my wallet on the train" "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)During the following week , six tons of hay belonging to one rancher were burned ; some buildings , farm tools , two horses , plows , and hay owned by Bonito_Lavato , a friendly interpreter for the company , and Pedro_Chavez ' hay were stolen or destroyed ; and a store was broken into and robbed . Cattle stealing and killing , again serious during the spring of 1891 , placed the land_grant company officers in a perplexing position . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)They caught Trig stealing liquor from the officers ' mess , and he got a_couple_of girls in_trouble . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Dice rolled , prostitutes plied their trade , thieves stole , murderers stabbed , and the ungodly blasphemed . (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)`` Nothing to steal from the crib '' . |
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[ verb ] move stealthily
Synonyms Examples "The ship slipped away in the darkness" Used in print (Vina Delmar, The Big Family....)Those named in the Greek paper were manufacturing reasons to steal aft under pretence of some call of duty , so_as to be near Spencer , watching an opportunity to communicate with him . |
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[ verb ] (baseball) steal a base, in baseball
Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)With one down in the eighth , Marv_Throneberry drew a walk and stole second as Hyde fanned Tuttle . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)In four of his nine previous seasons Mays hit as_many_as 25 home_runs and stole as_many_as 25 bases . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)His best years were 1954 when he hit .345 with 41 homers and '55 when he belted 51 home_runs , drove_in 127 and stole 24 bases . |
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[ noun ] (baseball,sport,games) a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
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