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Encyclopedia > Steal

The term steal can mean either:

Look up steal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Or, in sports terminology: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ... A young waif steals a pair of boots Stealing redirects here. ...

  • 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 hammer scores

Or, in computer science: This article is about the sport. ... The all-time stolen base leader, Rickey Henderson, swipes third in 1988. ... This article is about the sport. ... In basketball, a steal occurs when a defensive player legally deflects and controls, catches, or bats to a teammate a pass or dribble of an offensive player. ... For other uses, see Curling (disambiguation). ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ...

  • 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 A database management system (DBMS) is a computer program (or more typically, a suite of them) designed to manage a database, a large set of structured data, and run operations on the data requested by numerous users. ... Steal is a 2002 action adventure film starring Stephen Dorff, Natasha Henstridge, Bruce Payne and Steven Berkoff. ...

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Theft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (947 words)
In the criminal law, theft (also known as stealing) is the wrongful taking of someone else's property without that person's freely-given consent.
Note that there may be civil liability for the torts of trespass to chattels or conversion in either eventuality.
If the act of stealing is complete before another comes into possession of the goods, this may be handling.
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