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steal (STEEL) (verb)
1. To take wrongful possession of something: "The thief tried to steal the lawn mower from his neighbor."
2. To come or to go unexpectedly or unobtrusively: "The baseball player tried to steal a base but the other player tried to stop him."
3. To take or to win by trickery and cunning: "The soccer player tried to steal the ball from his opponent."
steel (STEEL) (noun)
1. A quality of the mind or physical state that suggests hardness: "His muscles were as hard as steel."

"His mind is like a trap of steel because once he learns something, he never forgets it."
2. Commercial iron that may contain up to 1.7% carbon alloy thereby allowing it to be malleable: "The steel used for the building was manufactured at the local mill."

steel (STEEL) (verb)
To prepare oneself for something difficult or unpleasant with determination and courage: "She was told to steel herself because someone was about to tell her some bad news."

The competition tried to steal the formulas for many of the successful steel products that his company makes.

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(Latin: steal, pilfer; thievish, kleptomania, thief)
(secretly getting access to files on a computer or network in order to get information, to steal private information in order to illegally transfer money, or to cause damage, etc.)
(Latin: to gather, to pillage, to plunder, to rob, to steal, to snatch, to heap up (as stones) and to carry off)
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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many sources is research.
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