Steal

[stiːl] or [stil]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) 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).

(verb.) steal a base.

(verb.) move stealthily; 'The ship slipped away in the darkness'.

(verb.) take without the owner's consent; 'Someone stole my wallet on the train'; 'This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation'.

整理:威尔伯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A handle; a stale, or stele.

(v. t.) 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.

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

(v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.

(v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.

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

(v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

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

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Purloin, pilfer, filch, CABBAGE, poach, peculate, embezzle, ROB, make off with, come unlawfully by.[2]. Allure, win, gain, draw over.

v. n. [1]. Pilfer, purloin, thieve, practise theft.[2]. Pass stealthily, go unperceived.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Filch, pilfer, purloin, swindle, take_by_theft, peculate, embezzle, smuggle

ANT:Rob, plunder, ravage, maraud, Back, pillage

編輯:塔比瑟

解釋/意思:

n. (Spens.) a handle.

v.t. to take by theft or feloniously: to take away without notice: to gain or win by address insidiously or by gradual means: to snatch: in golf to hole a long putt by a stealthy stroke—the opposite of Gobble.—v.i. to practise theft: to take feloniously: to pass secretly: to slip in or out unperceived:—pa.t. stōle; pa.p. stōlen.—ns. Steal′er; Steal′ing the act of taking another's property without his knowledge or consent: stolen property.—adv. Steal′ingly.—Steal a march on to gain an advantage unperceived.

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