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verb
- (figuratively) To maintain silence and secrecy in the face of some external threat.
- (military) To close the spacing between lines (ranks) of troops, as they are deployed across a battlefield, thereby decreasing the depth of the formation as it faces the enemy side.
- (figuratively) To regroup forces, especially when this involves overlooking differences in order to face a challenge or adverse situation. Often implies making a show of unity, especially to the public.
verb
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
- cover with tiles
noun
- (computing) A rectangular graphic.
- Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.
- a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
- a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
- game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- (US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
- A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- (figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
- (slang, uncommon) Clipping of closet case.
- The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- a toilet in Britain
- a small private room for study or prayer
- a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
adj
verb
adj
- Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
- Free from attack or danger; protected.
- Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
- Free from the danger of theft; safe.
- Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
- Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
- Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
- Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- financially safe
- free from fear or doubt; easy in mind
- free from danger or risk
- not likely to fail or give way
verb
- To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
- To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
- make certain of
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
- assure payment of
- cause to be firmly attached
- get by special effort
- furnish with battens
noun
- That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
- A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
- A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
- (usually in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
verb
noun
- Initialism of top secret: secured compartmented/compartmentalized information.
- Initialism of Tree Structure Skeleton Color Image: transforms sequences of human skeletal poses, continuous or non-continuous, into an abstract color image. The movement is a super object, enabling analysis of human motion using classical deep learning methods..
noun
- secrecy
- of China
- informal terms for a mother
- (Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.
- (US, originally Texas) A decoration traditionally made of chrysanthemums and ribbons, worn by girls at high school homecoming celebrations, marked with indicators such as the wearer's name, school, the year, and so on.
- (chiefly US) A chrysanthemum.
- A type of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
adj
intj
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
- (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
- (uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
- (uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
- (uncountable, countable) Any space that such colour pervades.
- (uncountable) Hell.
- (uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
- (uncountable) Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.
- (countable) The product of being dark.
- absence of light or illumination
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- a swarthy complexion
- an unenlightened state
- having a dark or somber color
noun
- a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
- protective covering that provides protection from the weather
- a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings
- the condition of being protected
- temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons
- (often with the definite article) An animal shelter.
- A place for protection from deadly conditions outside, including military assault; usually partly or fully underground.
- (uncountable, abstract) The state of being protected or shielded.
- A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave).
- (usually as the head in compounds) A bare-bones above-ground structure meant to provide temporary cover from the elements; usually small and with no door to close.
- A refuge, sanctuary, or (by metonymy) institution that provides temporary housing or a place to sleep for those in need or in danger.
- (uncountable) That which provides protection or cover.
verb
noun
- (cryptography) Initialism of forward secrecy.
- (US) Initialism of forest service.
- Initialism of fingerspelling.
- Initialism of full service (“full sexual activity in prostitution”).
- Initialism of Felty's syndrome
- (military, nautical, exonym) Initialism of French ship (a ship of the military of the Fifth Republic of France (used as a ship prefix)).
- (probability theory) Initialism of first success distribution.
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noun
adj
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verb
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verb
adj
noun
noun
- (computer security) The covert extraction of data from a system.
- (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
- (sciences) A filtering out (usually movement of a substance through a barrier).
- (civil engineering) A method for managing storm water runoff.
- (biology) A gradual movement of a substance to exterior (as through cell membrane to extracellular fluid or medium).
noun
- The act of slipping, especially from a secure location.
- A decrease in motion, or in the power of a mechanical system, due to slipping.
- The amount by which something has slipped.
- The difference between estimated and actual transaction costs.
- A lessening of performance or achievement.
- Movement of earth on a slope, a landslip.
- a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping
- failing to hold or slipping out of place
- decline from a standard level of performance or achievement
noun
verb
adj
verb
adj
noun
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
verb
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
adj
- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
- secret and sly or sordid
- Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
- Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
- Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
- Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.
adj
adv
noun
verb
adj
- Being or kept hidden.
- designed to elude detection
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- not openly made known
- indulging only covertly
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- hidden from general view or use
- communicated covertly
- not expressed
noun
- Something not understood or known.
- (Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
- The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
- (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- (uncountable) Private seclusion.
- (historical) A form of steel skullcap.
- information known only to a special group
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
adv
verb
- protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
- examine in order to test suitability
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- project onto a screen for viewing
- examine methodically
- prevent from entering
- To shelter or conceal.
- (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To fit with a screen.
- (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
- (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
noun
- the personnel of the film industry
- the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
- a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
- a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
- partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
- (American football) Ellipsis of screen pass.
- (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- (figurative) A disguise; concealment.
- (by extension) A room in a cinema.
- (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
verb
noun
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- a protective covering or structure
- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
- (transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
- (colloquial, law enforcement) A police badge.
- (heraldry) The escutcheon on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
- (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- (figurative) One who protects or defends.
- (science fiction) A field of energy that protects or defends.
- (lichenology) In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
- (geology) A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
- A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
- (mining, tunnelling) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
- A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
- (automotive, British English) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
adj
adv
noun
verb
adv
prep_phrase
noun
- A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- (US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
- A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- (figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
- (slang, uncommon) Clipping of closet case.
- The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- a toilet in Britain
- a small private room for study or prayer
- a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
adj
verb
noun
- That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
- A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
- A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
- (usually in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
verb
noun
- Initialism of top secret: secured compartmented/compartmentalized information.
- Initialism of Tree Structure Skeleton Color Image: transforms sequences of human skeletal poses, continuous or non-continuous, into an abstract color image. The movement is a super object, enabling analysis of human motion using classical deep learning methods..
noun
- secrecy
- of China
- informal terms for a mother
- (Commonwealth, Ireland, informal) Mother.
- (US, originally Texas) A decoration traditionally made of chrysanthemums and ribbons, worn by girls at high school homecoming celebrations, marked with indicators such as the wearer's name, school, the year, and so on.
- (chiefly US) A chrysanthemum.
- A type of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
adj
intj
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Secrecy; concealment.
- (uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
- (uncountable) Gloom; gloominess; depression.
- (uncountable) The state or quality of reflecting little light, of tending to a blackish or brownish color.
- (uncountable) Lack of understanding or compassion; spiritual or mental blindness.
- (uncountable, countable) Any space that such colour pervades.
- (uncountable) Hell.
- (uncountable) Lack of knowledge; obscurity or meaning or intelligibility; the unknown.
- (uncountable) Nothingness, vanity, emptiness.
- (countable) The product of being dark.
- absence of light or illumination
- an unilluminated area
- absence of moral or spiritual values
- a swarthy complexion
- an unenlightened state
- having a dark or somber color
noun
- a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
- protective covering that provides protection from the weather
- a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay on current earnings
- the condition of being protected
- temporary housing for homeless or displaced persons
- (often with the definite article) An animal shelter.
- A place for protection from deadly conditions outside, including military assault; usually partly or fully underground.
- (uncountable, abstract) The state of being protected or shielded.
- A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave).
- (usually as the head in compounds) A bare-bones above-ground structure meant to provide temporary cover from the elements; usually small and with no door to close.
- A refuge, sanctuary, or (by metonymy) institution that provides temporary housing or a place to sleep for those in need or in danger.
- (uncountable) That which provides protection or cover.
verb
noun
- (cryptography) Initialism of forward secrecy.
- (US) Initialism of forest service.
- Initialism of fingerspelling.
- Initialism of full service (“full sexual activity in prostitution”).
- Initialism of Felty's syndrome
- (military, nautical, exonym) Initialism of French ship (a ship of the military of the Fifth Republic of France (used as a ship prefix)).
- (probability theory) Initialism of first success distribution.
verb
noun
noun
adj
noun
noun
verb
noun
name
noun
- (computer security) The covert extraction of data from a system.
- (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
- (sciences) A filtering out (usually movement of a substance through a barrier).
- (civil engineering) A method for managing storm water runoff.
- (biology) A gradual movement of a substance to exterior (as through cell membrane to extracellular fluid or medium).
noun
- The act of slipping, especially from a secure location.
- A decrease in motion, or in the power of a mechanical system, due to slipping.
- The amount by which something has slipped.
- The difference between estimated and actual transaction costs.
- A lessening of performance or achievement.
- Movement of earth on a slope, a landslip.
- a decrease of transmitted power in a mechanical system caused by slipping
- failing to hold or slipping out of place
- decline from a standard level of performance or achievement
noun
verb
verb
- (figuratively) To maintain silence and secrecy in the face of some external threat.
- (military) To close the spacing between lines (ranks) of troops, as they are deployed across a battlefield, thereby decreasing the depth of the formation as it faces the enemy side.
- (figuratively) To regroup forces, especially when this involves overlooking differences in order to face a challenge or adverse situation. Often implies making a show of unity, especially to the public.
verb
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
- cover with tiles
noun
- (computing) A rectangular graphic.
- Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.
- a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
- a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
- game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Being or kept hidden.
- designed to elude detection
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- not openly made known
- indulging only covertly
- (of information) given in confidence or in secret
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- hidden from general view or use
- communicated covertly
- not expressed
noun
- Something not understood or known.
- (Christianity, often in the plural) Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.
- The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
- (countable) A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
- (uncountable) Private seclusion.
- (historical) A form of steel skullcap.
- information known only to a special group
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
verb
- protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
- examine in order to test suitability
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- project onto a screen for viewing
- examine methodically
- prevent from entering
- To shelter or conceal.
- (basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- (molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To fit with a screen.
- (film, television) To present publicly (on the screen).
- (medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
noun
- the personnel of the film industry
- the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
- a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
- a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
- partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
- (American football) Ellipsis of screen pass.
- (mining, quarrying) A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- (cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- (basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- (figurative) A disguise; concealment.
- (by extension) A room in a cinema.
- (printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- (architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- (nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- (genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- (computing) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- (baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- (by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening, or the method for it.
verb
noun
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- a protective covering or structure
- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
- (transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
- (colloquial, law enforcement) A police badge.
- (heraldry) The escutcheon on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
- (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- (figurative) One who protects or defends.
- (science fiction) A field of energy that protects or defends.
- (lichenology) In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
- (geology) A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
- A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
- (mining, tunnelling) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
- A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
- (automotive, British English) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
adv
adv
prep_phrase
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
- Free from attack or danger; protected.
- Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
- Free from the danger of theft; safe.
- Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
- Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
- Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
- Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- financially safe
- free from fear or doubt; easy in mind
- free from danger or risk
- not likely to fail or give way
verb
- To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
- To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
- make certain of
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
- assure payment of
- cause to be firmly attached
- get by special effort
- furnish with battens
adj
verb
adj
noun
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
verb
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
adj
- marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
- secret and sly or sordid
- Of a person or an animal: sly, stealthy.
- Of a person, etc.: inclined to steal; pilfering, thieving.
- Of a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
- Of a thing: that has been acquired by theft; stolen; also (generally) taken stealthily.