What's the difference between steal and till?

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.

Till


Definition:

  • (prep.) To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.
  • (n.) A vetch; a tare.
  • (n.) A drawer.
  • (n.) A tray or drawer in a chest.
  • (n.) A money drawer in a shop or store.
  • (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
  • (n.) A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
  • (v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
  • (conj.) As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.
  • (prep.) To prepare; to get.
  • (v. i.) To cultivate land.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As could be expected, objective response was seen in only a small number of patients followed up till 9 months.
  • (2) During heavy exercise at 65-75% of VO2 max, time till exhaustion correlates with the pre-exercise muscle glycogen concentration and exhaustion coincides with empty glycogen stores.
  • (3) Now cases cured till Dec. 1987 are 4640 (1120 MB + 3520 PB) 17 cases relapsed after MDT (15 PB + 2 MB).
  • (4) Up till now none of the available laser systems are optimal for application in the cardiovascular system, but still many of them have been effective clinically.
  • (5) They were till now used mainly to regulate contraception and menstrual flow.
  • (6) Everything on Tonight's the Night was recorded and mixed before On the Beach was started, but it was never finished or put into its complete order till later.
  • (7) 50 patients treated in the period from 1925 till 1977 with a spondylolisthesis of more than 50% have been reviewed.
  • (8) In our opinion in case of typical anamnesis the cerclage-operation is to be performed earlier than in the practice up till now, before opening the cervical os, and the infection of the amnion.
  • (9) Recurrent free curves were compared till 1050 days after the initiation of the study.
  • (10) Social workers were branded as communists and detained till they confessed, often after coercive treatment.
  • (11) And he says the north has been pretty underserved till now.
  • (12) Thus, these two species are more closely related than suggested earlier; g) Till now, no Mycobacterium has been found showing nicotinamidase without "pyrazinamidase" activity (or vice versa).
  • (13) The new antibody specificity is a specific serological finding in patients with Bechterew's disease and is therefore suitable for use as a diagnostic, and perhaps also as a prognostic test for this type of spondylarthritis till now assumed to be seronegative.
  • (14) This is the story of Emmett Till and Eric Garner, and a thousand stories in between.
  • (15) It was then gradually elevated from the beginning of the 1st month following excision till it reached 88% of the level before excision at the 10th month.
  • (16) What’s more, older people are now topping up pensions by doing a few hours a week stacking shelves or operating the tills at the supermarket.
  • (17) Who is going to take on these duties when the current generation will have to literally work till they drop?
  • (18) An endemic hospital infection caused by E. coli 0111:B4 together with Pseudomonas aeruginosa was observed in a county hospital over the period October 1973 till January 1974, which could not be brought under control by routine preventive measures against cross-infections established on the wards.
  • (19) The colony-forming activity of embryo lung cells CBA mice was determined according to the Till and McCulloch technique (1961).
  • (20) I’ve lived in rooms in attics, and I worked till I was 70.