User Contributed Dictionary
Verb
steals- third-person singular of steal
Extensive Definition
The term steal can mean either:
- To commit theft
Or, in sports terminology:
- In baseball, to gain a stolen base
- In basketball, a steal occurs when the defensive player actively takes possession of the ball from the opponent's team
- In curling, a steal occurs when the team without the black hammer scores
Or, in computer
science:
- In database systems, steal refers to a policy a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs
Or refer to Steal, a
2002 action film
steals in Danish: Steal