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 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
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