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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stealth
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stealth tax
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bomber
▪ The Air Force has made its radar-evading B-2 stealth bombers even harder to find in the air.
fighter
▪ And Lockheed Martin now wants clearance to export the new F-22 stealth fighter.
▪ The Air Force intends the F-22 stealth fighter to be the grimmest perdition to darken the skies since mythological times.
▪ A new, all-but-invisible stealth fighter was no exception.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stealth technology
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A white sloop moved upriver in the dark, a little mystery of grace and stealth.
▪ Liz ran, dragging Anna, their footsteps thundering; stealth would take too long.
▪ Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came.
▪ Newer stealth planes, including the B-2 bomber and the F-22, use the curve structure pioneered by Tacit Blue.
▪ The Air Force has made its radar-evading B-2 stealth bombers even harder to find in the air.
▪ There is more to the YF-22 than stealth.
▪ They would use stealth, lull me into thinking there was no danger.
▪ This is another instance of the novelist promoting his dearest values by stealth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stealth

Stealth \Stealth\ (st[e^]lth), n. [OE. stal[thorn]e. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stealth

mid-13c., "theft, action or practice of stealing," from a probable Old English *stælþ, which is related to stelen (see steal (v.)), from Proto-Germanic *stælitho (cognates: Old Norse stulþr), with Proto-Germanic abstract noun suffix *-itho (see -th (2)).\n

\nCompare heal/health, weal/wealth. Sense of "secret action" developed c.1300, but the word also retained its etymological sense into 18c. Got a boost as an adjective from stealth fighter, stealth bomber, radar-evading U.S. military aircraft, activated 1983.

Wiktionary
stealth

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others. 2 (context archaic countable English) An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.

WordNet
stealth

n. avoiding detection by moving carefully [syn: stealing]

Wikipedia
Stealth

Stealth may refer to:

Stealth (film)

Stealth is a 2005 American military science fiction action film starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton and Richard Roxburgh. The film was directed by Rob Cohen, director of The Fast and the Furious and xXx.

The film follows three top fighter pilots as they join a project to develop an automated robotic stealth aircraft.

Released on July 29, 2005 by Columbia Pictures, the film cost $135 million to make, but was panned by critics, and was a box office bomb making only $76,932,872 worldwide, one of the worst losses in cinematic history.

Stealth (webcomic)

Stealth is a webcomic created, written and drawn by William Satterwhite. Set in the fictional Terminus City, the series centers on Allen White, a young man who, as Stealth, fights crime and protects the innocent. Originally published on the Web, material can be purchased in print online.

Stealth (roller coaster)

Stealth is a steel roller coaster located in the Amity Beach area of Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, UK. Built and designed by Intamin of Switzerland for £12 million, the Accelerator Coaster model opened in 2006. Riders reach a maximum height of and accelerate from 0-80 mph in 1.9 seconds. It has the fastest acceleration of any coaster in the UK, and is the tallest among launch coasters in the country. At the base of the top hat element on either side, riders may experience up to 4.5 G.

Stealth (video game)

is a Japan-exclusive video game released for the Super Famicom on December 18, 1992 by Hect.

Stealth (album)

Stealth is the ninth album by Scorn, released on November 19, 2007 through Ohm Resistance.

Stealth (The Americans)

"Stealth" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the American television drama series The Americans, and the 24th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on FX in the United States on May 7, 2014.

Stealth (dinghy)

The Stealth is a single-handed sailing skiff. Manufactured by CL Sailboats in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. Its flat design features wings for efficient hiking and instant planing on water. An asymmetrical spinnaker can be hoisted and retracted from a pocket on the foredeck. A trapeze is not needed, making this an intermediate to advance level boat, somewhere between Laser type boats and single handed skiffs.

Sails are made by the company Hyde Sails.

It is a newly designed boat. Designed by Tim Kernan. As of 2009 its design revisions are completed and being sold at CL Sailboats .

Usage examples of "stealth".

Sleek in some lines and blunt in others, it resembled the F-42, an experimental Air Force fighter unmatched in stealth, maneuverability, and weapons, with a thrust that well exceeded its weight, and aeroelasticity that allowed its wings to alter according to commands from its onboard mesh.

Here, Soy Foon observed a shrewd, leering face - a countenance that betokened both stealth and swiftness.

Knowing that I had gone to bed, and having no further services to render me, curiosity made him go and see what you were doing there by stealth, as if you had wanted to see the lady, who would be in bed by that time, you would not have gone by the door leading to the garden.

The warrior-caste of Jant were heavy troops, their silver and purple combat armour made for assault, rather than speed or stealth.

They already know that neither successful AIDS drugs nor stealth nucleosides work.

And because, after their going, it was all sad cheer at Camelot, and heavy, empty days, Sir Dinar took two of his best friends aside, both young knights, Sir Galhaltin and Sir Ozanna le Coeur Hardi, and spoke to them of riding from the Court by stealth.

Daish Reik, that there are more ways than one of killing or catching every kind of prey and stealth a part of most of them.

Charles Lamb, a professed devotee, sounded the true note of Teaism when he wrote that the greatest pleasure he knew was to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

The assault charges, the restraining order, the accusations about that stupid Stealth Torcher, the damned murder, and Neville.

The DA, Berringer, was looking for a win, the department was having public relations problems and the Stealth Torcher business was making the whole community nervous.

I had to share quarters with a wild animal, better the upfront ferocity of a dog than the power and stealth of a cat.

The bioshield she wore in her blunter and the stealth fabric from which the jacket was made would hide her heartbeat and body temperature from any standard scannet.

Two Borzoi submarines were completed in late 1991 using purloined stealth technology.

I moved forward with millimetric stealth and my left eye and the barrel of the pistol went round the corner of the third booth at the same instant.

The door handle depressed with almost millimetric stealth then slowly returned to position as the door, very very smoothly and gently, began to open.