Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who steals, in any sense; especially, a thief: as, a cattle-stealer.
- noun Specifically In ship-building, the foremost or aftmost plank in a strake, which is dropped short of the stem or stern-post and butts against a notch or jog in another plank. Also called
stealing-strake .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who steals; a thief.
- noun (Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
steals ; athief . - noun shipbuilding The endmost plank of a
strake which stops short of the stem or stern.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
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Examples
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He does an admirable job of ignoring his mostly comedic background but the real scene-stealer is Frank Whaley.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007
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However the real film stealer is the girl Thuy Nguyen and how great she is during some incredibly difficult scenes, not just for her to act, but for us to watch as well.
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And according to material dug up by several lefty bloggers, the shocking fact seems to be that Domenech is a word stealer of epic proportions, someone who has lifted entire articles from other sources and claimed the words and ideas as his own….
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And according to material dug up by several lefty bloggers, the shocking fact seems to be that Domenech is a word stealer of epic proportions, someone who has lifted entire articles from other sources and claimed the words and ideas as his own....
03/24/2006 2006
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and BTW Jason..looks like my name stealer third parrot has nailed you to the wall…again..
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But the real scene-stealer is Andy (Ed Helms), who busts a serious move as ‘Nard Dog.
'The Office' webisode 'Subtle Sexuality': 'Male Prima Donna' premiere | EW.com 2009
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Visitors are instructed to download their profile, which according to multiple sources is a malicious program almost certainly a password stealer that is hard to detect by the vast majority of anti-virus products on the market today.
Nastygram: CDC 'swine flu' vaccine scam Brian Krebs 2009
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The malicious code included a downloader and a stored password stealer and appeared to be have been made to order for 76Service.
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Visitors are instructed to download their profile, which according to multiple sources is a malicious program (almost certainly a password stealer) that is hard to detect by the vast majority of anti-virus products on the market today.
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Blanco is a nominal – not a real – horse-stealer, that is to say, he has committed the sin which a society of horsemen does not pardon.
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