Steal

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The term steal can mean either:

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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

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