What's the difference between looter and steal?

Looter


Definition:

  • (n.) A plunderer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 'I am all the African chiefs who have sold their continent to the white men' … Samuel Fosso's self-portrait as an African chief The life work of one of Africa's most important living photographers and contemporary artists, Samuel Fosso , has been rescued from destruction after his studio and home were attacked by looters in war-torn Central African Republic .
  • (2) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
  • (3) JD Sports Verdict LOSER Sales up 3.2% (UK & Ireland, 7 weeks to 5 January) London riots: police guard a JD Sports store targeted by looters in Hackney, east London.
  • (4) Clegg also defended the right of local authorities to consider evicting the families of vandals and looters but stressed that the issue had to be dealt with carefully and sensitively.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sam’s Meat Market & More employee Steve Sumad surveys damage caused by looters.
  • (6) At the beginning he named us ‘terrorists’ and ‘looters’.
  • (7) But it was unclear if Arinç's conciliatory remarks had the blessing of Erdogan, who has previously dismissed the protesters as "looters" and fringe extremists.
  • (8) Dozens of police officers dressed in riot gear, some holding assault rifles, started filing in more than two hours before midnight, lining the street and guarding store fronts from potential looters.
  • (9) Occasionally, French and African peacekeepers entered the neighbourhood and fired in the air to disperse the looters, but they usually quickly returned as the peacekeepers were leaving."
  • (10) The prime minister's remarks were less abrasive than his comments earlier this week when he branded his critics as looters and fringe extremists.
  • (11) With Iraqi police still absent from their posts - those at the museum fled as the looters arrived - the US remains the only potential policing presence in the city.
  • (12) He was fed up with the rioters and the looters and he was determined that they would not destroy our community."
  • (13) • Forces across England did not know how to respond to social media networks, particularly encrypted BlackBerry messaging, which enabled rioters and looters to organise and at times outmanoeuvre police.
  • (14) Vigilantes armed with machetes and clubs blocked the road leading away from the compound, stopping cars to prevent looters from driving off with heavy weapons.
  • (15) Soldiers intervened to stop looters at a huge supermarket in Ariana, 20 miles north of the capital, as a helicopter hovered overhead.
  • (16) A female officer – part of a small team of mostly community support officers with no riot kit or training, who successfully defended local shop owners against looters – admitted to feeling fear before going on duty and said: "My dad had to talk me into it."
  • (17) ITN, which produces news programmes for ITV and Channel 4, said that despite the drive to swiftly identify looters the government cannot run roughshod over standard legal practice.
  • (18) The looters sabotaged not just property but the community’s peaceful protests, he said.
  • (19) With no intervention from police at all, and looters in control of the area for around three hours, it was left to residents to intervene.
  • (20) Fosso's housekeeper was still there trying to protect the house and studio from looters.

Steal


Definition:

  • (n.) A handle; a stale, or stele.
  • (v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
  • (v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
  • (v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
  • (v. t.) To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
  • (v. t.) To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
  • (v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
  • (v. i.) To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We determined to further clarify the mechanism of this transmural coronary "steal" employing intracoronary DP administration, thereby avoiding systemic hypotension.
  • (2) In the presence of peripheral vasodilatation, adequate blood flow can be expected after such bypass grafts at blood pressures as low as 80 millimeters of mercury and hypotension per se does not produce vascular steal.
  • (3) 'We were stealing money from our managers to buy vegetables to be able to survive.
  • (4) The combination of a carotid-basilar and a vertebro-vertebral collateral circulation was verified directly in a patient with a complete subclavian steal by means of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography.
  • (5) The second, less common type of steal is associated with isolated atresia of the proximal segment of the subclavian arteries.
  • (6) Jacoby Ellsbury goes to steal second, and the catcher Molina's throw isn't even close allowing Ellsbury to make it to third base with nobody out.
  • (7) Garfield has a history of making interesting choices and a knack for using his edgy watchfulness to steal scenes from some of the best actors in the business.
  • (8) There’s always other things you can do than stealing and that and running around with the same people,” he says.
  • (9) These chains have been stealing market share from bigger rivals, such as Tesco and Asda during the economic downturn.
  • (10) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
  • (11) Roger Kirkby: An infield single for Papi, lol Wait until he steals a base in this series.
  • (12) No patient developed evidence of an intracerebral steal at the higher arterial carbon dioxide tension.
  • (13) Chaffin’s sources say that, even as Elon Musk’s electronic car firm Tesla Motors is stealing away record numbers of employees from Apple , the house the Steves built is hiring Tesla employees right back – and specifically, “the kind of people from Tesla with expertise that is most suited to cars”.
  • (14) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
  • (15) One possible explanation for the lack of protective effect for isoflurane might be related to its vasodilative properties, which could result in a cerebral vascular steal.
  • (16) Even if Morgan is caught, people fear that his powerful backers in the army will find another militia to continue poaching and stealing gold.
  • (17) Concern over the extent of the News of the World's hacking of the phones of prominent people increased after it was revealed that the name of Brian Paddick , the former deputy assistant commissioner, was found on documents belonging to Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator jailed for stealing secrets from mobile phone voice messages.
  • (18) Apple accuses Samsung of: • Stealing design ideas, features of iPad and iPhone.
  • (19) "It was the negligence of Shell which compelled people to steal.
  • (20) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.