What is "stolen"

Steal \Steal\ (st[=e]l), v. t. [imp. Stole (st[=o]l); p. p. Stolen (st[=o]"l'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Stealing.] [OE. stelen, AS. stelan; akin to OFries. stela, D. stelen, OHG. stelan, G. stehlen, Icel. stela, SW. stj["a]la, Dan. sti[ae]le, Goth. stilan.]

1. 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.

   Maugre thy heed, thou must for indigence Or steal, or beg, or borrow, thy dispense.
   --Chaucer.

   The man who stole a goose and gave away the giblets in alms.
   --G. Eliot.

2. To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.

   They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
   --Spenser.

   He will steal himself into a man's favor.
   --Shak.

3. To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.

   So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
   --2 Sam. xv. 6.

4. To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.

   Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind from its steady pursuit of any subject.
   --I. Watts.

5. To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.

   Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal it.
   --Bacon.

   To steal a march, to march in a covert way; to gain an advantage unobserved; -- formerly followed by of, but now by on or upon, and sometimes by over; as, to steal a march upon one's political rivals.

   She yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy.
   --Smollett.

   Fifty thousand men can not easily steal a march over the sea.
   --Walpole.

   Syn: To filch; pilfer; purloin; thieve.

Stolen \Stol"en\, p. p. of Steal.

c.1300, past participle adjective from steal (v.).\n\nStolen waters are sweet; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

[Prov. ix:17, KJV]

1. That has been stolen. v

2. (past participle of steal English)

1. v. take without the owner's consent; "Someone stole my wallet on the train"; "This author stole entire paragraphs from my dissertation"

2. move stealthily; "The ship slipped away in the darkness" [syn: slip]

3. steal a base

4. to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot]

5. [also: stolen, stole]

1. n. an advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn: bargain, buy]

2. a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)

3. [also: stolen, stole]

adj. taken dishonestly; "the purloined letter" [syn: purloined]

See steal

Stolen is a stealth video game developed by British video game company Blue 52 and published by Hip Games for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows in 2005.

Stolen, a fantasy novel written by Canadian author Kelley Armstrong, is the second book in the Women of the Otherworld series.

Stolen is a play by Australian playwright Jane Harrison. It is based upon the lives of five indigenous people who dealt with the issues for forceful removal by the Australian government.

"Stolen" is the second and last single from Jay Sean's debut album Me Against Myself. It was released on 25 October 2004 and debuted at #4 on the UK Singles Chart, making it his highest charting UK single until " Down." It sold over 39,000 copies in the United Kingdom. The song contains a sample from the classic Bollywood song "Chura Liya Hai" sung by Asha Bhosle from the 1973 film Yaadon Ki Baaraat.

Stolen is a 2009 American drama mystery thriller film, directed by Anders Anderson and starring Josh Lucas, Jon Hamm and Rhona Mitra.

Stolen, formerly known as Medallion, is a 2012 American action crime thriller film starring Nicolas Cage, Danny Huston, Malin Åkerman, M.C. Gainey, Sami Gayle, Mark Valley and Josh Lucas.

Stolen is the debut novel of author Lucy Christopher. It was published in the UK in 2009. The book is set in the Great Sandy Desert in the Australian Outback and is the story of 16-year-old Gemma, and twenty-four-year-old Ty (which is a nickname for Tyler). Subtitled A Letter to My Captor, the book is told in second person narrative as a letter from Gemma to Ty as she waits in Perth after her eventual release.

"Stolen" is the second single (third if one counts the download-only single " Rooftops and Invitations") to be released by Dashboard Confessional off their fourth studio album Dusk and Summer. The song debuted at number 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2007, and peaked at 44. It is the band's most successful single to date in the U.S., and re-energized sales of Dusk and Summer.

For the German market, "Stolen" was rerecorded and reworked as a duet with the German rock/pop band Juli. Therefore, new scenes were edited in the old video. The single reached number 15 in Germany. The single of the first version was download-only, not released on CD, a CD was only handed out as a promotional item.

Stolen may refer to:

• Stolen (2009 documentary film), a 2009 controversial documentary
• Stolen (2009 drama film), a 2009 mystery-thriller film
• Stolen (2010 film), a film based on the real life kidnapping of baby Kahu Durie in New Zealand.
• Stolen (2012 film), a film by Simon West, starring Nicolas Cage
• Stolen (Christopher novel), a 2009 novel by Lucy Christopher
• Stolen (Armstrong novel), a 2003 novel by Kelley Armstrong
• "Stolen" (Dashboard Confessional song), 2006
• "Stolen" (Jay Sean song), 2004
• Stolen (play), a 1998 Australian play by Jane Harrison
• Stolen (video game), a 2005 stealth-based video game
• Stolen!, a 2016 mobile app

Stolen is a 2009 Australian documentary film that uncovers slavery in the Sahrawi refugee camps controlled by the Polisario Front located in Algeria and in the disputed territory of Western Sahara controlled by Morocco, written and directed by Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw. It had its world premiere at the 2009 Sydney Film Festival, where a controversy started after one of the participants in the documentary, Fetim, a black Sahrawi, was flown to Australia by the Polisario Liberation Front to say she wasn't a slave. The POLISARIO, avowing that it doesn’t condone slavery and needing to safeguard its image on the world stage to support its independence fight, began an international campaign against the film. It put out its own video denouncing Stolen, in which several people who Ayala and Fallshaw interviewed say they were coerced or paid by the Australian duo. On May the 2nd 2007, while filming in the refugee camps Ayala and Fallshaw were detained by the Polisario Front and Minurso and the Australian ministry of foreign affairs negotiated their release. "The Polisario Front officials criticised the interest the two journalists took in black members of the Sahrawi population, Reporters Without Borders has learned. Ayala told the press freedom organisation that she saw cases of enslavement. “The fact that they are fighting for their independence does not mean that Polisario’s leaders can allow themselves to commit such human rights violations,” she said. “It is our duty as journalists to denounce such practices. We originally went there to work on the problem of separated families. But during our stay, we witnessed scenes of slavery.”

In 2008 Human Rights Watch published a report confirming that vestiges of slavery still affects the black minority in the Polisario refugee camps and in Western Sahara, the report included a manumission document signed by the POLISARIO’s Ministry of Religious and Cultural Affairs.

Stolen has screened in more than 80 film festivals worldwide including 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, IDFA, Seattle IFF, Stranger Than Fiction, Glasgow Film Festival, MIFF, One World Film Festival, Docaviv, It's All True, Singapore IFF, Cleveland IFF, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Frontline Club Liberation Season, and Amnesty International Film Festival.

Stolen television premiere on PBS World as part of the Afropop Series hosted by Academy Award nominee actress Gabourey Sidibe was initially scheduled for February 5, 2013. Due to the controversy around the film, the broadcast was pushed back. "There’s been significant pressure placed on PBS to not show "Stolen" from US-based lobbyists (US law firm Foley Hoag have been paid the best part of $1,000,000 annually by the Algerian government since 2007 to lobby in the US on issues related to Western Sahara) for the Algerian government, who back the Polisario. It was this pressure on PBS that prompted WGBH to carry out their own investigation and present the "Stolen" two-hour special".

Stolen premiered nationwide on February 26 on PBS, 2013 with a special report carried by journalist Phillip Martin that included an interview led by WGBH journalist Callie Crossley with the directors, followed by a panel discussion whether slavery exists in Western Sahara with Eric Goldstein (Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division Human Rights Watch), Madeline Campbell (Professor of Urban Studies, Worcester State University) and Bakary Tandia (Mauritanian Anti-Slavery Activist).