stealth
IPA: stˈɛɫθ
noun
- (uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
- (archaic, countable) An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.
verb
- (especially military, computing) To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.
- (slang, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse without a condom through deception (for example, removing the condom mid-act).
adjective
- Surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged.
- (military, aviation, vehicles, technology) Having properties that diminish radar signatures.
- (transgender) Hiding one's transgender status (in general or in specific areas of one's life, e.g. at work) after transition.
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Examples of "stealth" in Sentences
- The designers have also improved the stealth system.
- The Washington Stealth will play at the Comcast Arena.
- The action is commonly executed with the use of stealth.
- The virus was one of the first to employ stealth tactics.
- He is extremely agile and an expert in the art of stealth.
- He has the face of an angel and the stealth of an assassin.
- I referred to the changing of the name happening by stealth.
- Furthermore, the stealth system is integrated to Hail Buster.
- Entrepreneurs will say that they are operating in "stealth mode."
- The entire entry on stealth in regards to the Typhoon is ridiculous.
- Widows are trained in the arts of stealth, infiltration, and disguise.
- If you are in "stealth mode," then I suggest that you do the following:
- Russia disparaged what it called a stealth attempt to bring about regime change.
- In Under the Radar, I had harsh things to say about start-ups that operate in "stealth mode."
- When he commented that he'd never heard of Omniture I told him we were in stealth marketing mode.
- Your experience with losers saying they are in stealth mode shouldn't bias you against the entire concept.
- GERAGOS: The problem is what we call stealth jurors, jurors who lie to get on the jury because it's high profile, because they've got --
- In cases as Danny had, in cases like that, where they are lengthy cases and there's pretrial publicity and ongoing publicity, it's virtually impossible to ferret out what I call stealth jurors.
- In Palo Alto, Calif., a nanotech startup that's still in stealth mode rents time remotely over the Internet for experiments using sophisticated electron microscopes -- devices it could never have afforded before.
- CROAL: Well, the way the standard things in the game use buttons and things like that, but when you get in a position behind your opponent that's when you can carry out what they call the stealth kills or executions.