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stealth
[stelth]
,–noun
| 1. | secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure. |
| 2. | a furtive departure or entrance. |
| 3. | Obsolete.
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| 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. |
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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
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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