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stealth

  [stelth] ,
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–noun
1. secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
2. a furtive departure or entrance.
3. Obsolete.
a. an act of stealing; theft.
b. the thing stolen; booty.
4. (initial capital letter) Military. a U.S. Air Force project involving a range of technologies, with the purpose of developing aircraft that are difficult to detect by sight, sound, radar, and infrared energy.
–adjective
5. surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged: a stealth hiring of the competitor's CEO; the stealth issue of the presidential race.
Origin:
1200–50; ME stelthe; cf. OE stælthing theft. See steal, -th 1

Related forms:
stealthful, adjective
stealth⋅ful⋅ly, adverb
stealthless, adjective
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stealth   (stělth)   
n.  
  1. The act of moving, proceeding, or acting in a covert way.
  2. The quality or characteristic of being furtive or covert.
  3. Archaic The act of stealing.
adj.  
  1. Not disclosing one's true ideology, affiliations, or positions: a stealth candidate.
  2. Having or providing the ability to prevent detection by radar: a stealth bomber; stealth technology.

[Middle English stelth, probably from Old English *stǣlth.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Stealth

Stealth\, n. [OE. staple. See Steal, v. t.]

1. The act of stealing; theft. [Obs.]

The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. --Spenser.

2. The thing stolen; stolen property. [Obs.] "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." --Sir W. Raleigh.

3. The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. --Pope.

The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth, With steel invades the brother's life by stealth. --Dryden.

I told him of your stealth unto this wood. --Shak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : stealth
Italian: furtività,
German: die Heimlichkeit,
Japanese: こっそり
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stealth 
c.1250, "theft, action or practice of stealing," from O.E. *stælþ, which is related to stelen (see steal), from P.Gmc. *stælitho (cf. O.N. stulþr). Sense of "secret action" developed c.1300, but the word also retained its etymological sense into 18c. Got a boost as an adj. from stealth fighter, stealth bomber, radar-evading U.S. military aircraft, activated 1983. Stealthy is attested from 1605.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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