Steal
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The term steal can mean either:
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- 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