stealth
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
technology
transport
vehicles
war
Etymology: From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, to Proto-Germanic *stelaną (“to steal, to sneak”) + *-iþō, equivalent to steal + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).
Base: steal
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: stealths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stealths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stealthing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stealthed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stealthed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
examples: Claudio.[...] But it chances
The stealth of our most mutuall entertainment
With Character too grosse, is writ on Iuliet.
[The King] thinks it fit[...] that restitution according to this order be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273).
gloss: To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.
pos: verb
tags: especially
gloss: To subject (someone) to stealthing (sexual intercourse without a condom through deception, for example removing the condom mid-act).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: For her, there's a clear link between this behavior and that of avowed stealthers: : both stem from a place of sexism and misogyny, and to the extent that they differ, it's only by degree. Tellingly, Davis's work treats deception as merely one of several ways that men engage in the behavior she terms "condom use resistance." […] To the best of my knowledge, I've never been stealthed.
[He] tried to stealth her but Nikki checked him quick. “Unh-unh. You better strap up.” “Word?” “Word nigga.” “A'ight, a'ight.” Justus slid a condom on and entered Nikki real slow.
[…] condom. I'd seen him put it on and take it off afterward, so it wasn't like he'd tried to stealth me. Plus, my periods had always been irregular, so I could go six weeks before it appeared. When had I last gotten it, though? I couldn't[…]
In Australia, one in three women and one in five men [...] in 2018 said they had been stealthed. The occurrence of stealthing is not exclusive to heterosexual intercourse, and while the majority of[…]
For example a sex worker complained about a client who 'stealthed' her by removing a condom and prosecuted him for rape. The court found him guilty (R v Campos).
gloss: Surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having properties that diminish radar signatures.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Hiding one's transgender status (in general or in specific areas of one's life, e.g. at work) after transition.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: go stealth; be stealth; live stealth
Lynn is a noted computer scienƟst and distnguished professor emerita of engineering who transitoned from male to female (MTF) in the 1960s and then lived “stealth,” or closeted about her transgender status, before coming out in 2000[…]
They remained radical in their gender identities and not easily categorized; Darling, for example, lived “stealth” as a woman, and Curtis and Woodlawn alternated between female and male identities in different phases of their lives,[…]
Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality Kristen Schilt. assigned: “Some of the boys, especially if they are really ... Trey, who was stealth, was accepted at work as one of the only black men in a male-dominated field.
Some respondents felt very comfortable being transgender FtM, […] One participant who was stealth about their gender identity and still presented as female to some friends and family,[…]
Jazz great and band leader Billy Tipton is one well-known example of a transgender person who lived “stealth” (secretly) most of his life. Born Dorothy Lucille tipton, Dorothy became “Billy” as an adolescent and, following a brief[…]
Because Derek was stealth, they did not know about his trans history. The spring of their sophomore year, the guys decided they all wanted to get an apartment off campus the next year. When Derek brought this up with me,[…]
Trans people either lived in the wrong gender, lived 'stealth', or faced ridicule. Times are achanging; every shop assistant who serves us, every taxi driver who gives us a lift, every old person we help, every human we experience,[…]
He could claim that he didn't know, that I had withheld my story from him throughout the relationship, the way I've heard some women have, women who lived stealth, who told their husbands that they'd had hysterectomies and lived in fear[…]
[…] having a trans partner who was “stealth” and the paradoxical challenges that a trans partner being recognized in accordance with his gender identity[…]
Since I lived stealth, I wasn't able to continuously have my appointments but only every once in a while. The main reasons were the facial swelling, and the beard hairs had to be a certain length. The health insurance didn't want to pay[…]
Likewise, another youth (Dan, 20 years old, transmasculine) described encountering issues at his place of employment that were explicit instances of racism or homophobia, and not of transphobia, because he was stealth at work (due to[…]
CAMERON: For the first year of my transition, I was stealth outside of the Internet, meaning I was not open about being transgender. I always felt people would be weirded out by me, because I saw so many people bash on trans people online. When people read my story,[…]
Related words: steal
Derived words: antistealth
counterstealth
nonstealth
stealthban
stealth camper
stealth camping
stealthen
stealthful
stealth game
stealthie
stealthless
stealthlike
stealth mode
stealth nerf
stealth tax
stealth-tax
stealth taxation
stealth wealth
stealthwise
stealthy
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