Steal vs. Steel

Stealverb

(transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.

Stealverb

To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.

Stealverb

(transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

Stealverb

To acquire at a low price.

Stealverb

(transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.

Stealverb

(intransitive) To move silently or secretly.

Stealverb

To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.

Stealverb

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.

Stealverb

To dispossess

Stealverb

To acquire; to get

Stealnoun

The act of stealing.

Stealnoun

A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.

Stealnoun

A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.

Stealnoun

(baseball) A stolen base.

Stealnoun

(curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.

Stealnoun

(computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.

Stealnoun

A handle; a stale, or stele.

Stealverb

To take, and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.

Stealverb

To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.

Stealverb

To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.

Stealverb

To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; - with away.

Stealverb

To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.

Stealverb

To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

Stealverb

To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.

Stealnoun

an advantageous purchase;

Stealnoun

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)

Stealverb

take without the owner's consent;

Stealverb

move stealthily;

Stealverb

steal a base

Stealverb

to go stealthily or furtively;

Stealverb

take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it

Stealverb

dishonestly pass off (another person's ideas) as one's own

Stealverb

take the opportunity to give or share (a kiss) when it is not expected or when people are not watching

Stealverb

(in various sports) gain (an advantage, a run, or possession of the ball) unexpectedly or by exploiting the temporary distraction of an opponent

Stealverb

run to (a base) while the pitcher is in the act of delivery

Stealverb

move somewhere quietly or surreptitiously

Stealverb

direct (a look) quickly and unobtrusively

Stealnoun

a bargain

Stealnoun

an act of stealing something

Stealnoun

an idea taken from another work

Stealnoun

an act of stealing a base.

Stealnoun

an act of taking possession of the ball or puck from an opponent

Steelnoun

An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.

Steelnoun

(countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

Steelnoun

Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.

Steelnoun

A piece used for striking sparks from flint.

Steelnoun

Armor.

Steelnoun

A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.

Steelnoun

(sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.

Steelnoun

(dialectal) A flat iron.

Steelnoun

A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.

Steelnoun

(printing) An engraving plate:

Steelnoun

Projectiles.

Steelnoun

(sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.

Steelnoun

A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.

Steelnoun

Medicinal consumption of this metal; chalybeate medicine; (eventually) any iron or iron-treated water consumed as a medical treatment.

Steelnoun

(countable) Varieties of this metal.

Steelnoun

The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.

Steelnoun

(figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.

Steeladjective

Made of steel.

Steeladjective

Similar to steel in color, strength, or the like; steely.

Steeladjective

(business) Of or belonging to the manufacture or trade in steel.

Steeladjective

Containing steel.

Steeladjective

(printing) Engraved on steel.

Steelverb

(transitive) To edge, cover, or point with steel.

Steelverb

(transitive) To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.

Steelverb

To back with steel.

Steelverb

To treat a liquid with steel for medicinal purposes.

Steelverb

To press with a flat iron.

Steelverb

To cause to resemble steel in appearance.

Steelverb

(transitive) To steelify; to turn iron into steel.

Steelverb

(transitive) To electroplate an item, particularly an engraving plate, with a layer of iron.

Steelverb

(transitive) To sharpen with a honing steel.

Steelproper noun

Coldbath Fields Prison in London, closed in 1877.

Steelnoun

A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.

Steelnoun

An instrument or implement made of steel

Steelnoun

A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.

Steelnoun

Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.

Steelnoun

An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.

Steelnoun

A chalybeate medicine.

Steelnoun

A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.

Steelverb

To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.

Steelverb

To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.

Steelverb

To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.

Steelverb

To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

Steelnoun

an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range

Steelnoun

a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade

Steelnoun

knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod

Steelverb

get ready for something difficult or unpleasant

Steelverb

cover, plate, or edge with steel

Steelnoun

a hard, strong grey or bluish-grey alloy of iron with carbon and usually other elements, used as a structural and fabricating material

Steelnoun

used as a symbol or embodiment of strength and firmness

Steelnoun

a rod of roughened steel on which knives are sharpened.

Steelverb

mentally prepare (oneself) to do or face something difficult

Steel

Steel is an alloy made up of iron with typically a few tenths of a percent of carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to iron. Many other elements may be present or added.