come out vs steal

come out

verb
  • To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings. 

  • To express one's opinion openly. 

  • To make a debut in a new field. 

  • To come out of the closet. 

  • To end up or result. 

  • To be deducted from. 

  • To go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers. 

  • To be discovered, be revealed. 

  • To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out. 

  • To be published, be issued. 

steal

verb
  • To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference. 

  • To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else. 

  • To borrow for a short moment. 

  • To dispossess 

  • To convey (something) clandestinely. 

  • To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement. 

  • To acquire at a low price. 

  • To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely. 

  • To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show. 

  • To move silently or secretly. 

  • take, plagiarize, tell on a joke, use a well-worded expression in one's own parlance or writing 

  • To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully. 

noun
  • A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price. 

  • A stolen base. 

  • Scoring in an end without the hammer. 

  • A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs. 

  • A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team. 

  • The act of stealing. 

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