English-Thai Dictionary

thief

N ขโมย  โจร  burglar pickpocket ka-moi

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

THIEF

n.plu. thieves. 1. One who secretly, unlawfully and feloniously takes the goods or personal property of another. The thief takes the property of another privately; the robber by open force.
2. One who takes the property of another wrongfully, either secretly or by violence. Job 3 :5.
3. One who seduces by false doctrine. John 1 :1.
4. One who makes it his business to cheat and defraud; as a den of thieves. Matthew 21:13.
5. An excrescence in the snuff of a candle.

 

THIEF-CATCHER

n.[thief and catch. ] One who catches thieves, or whose business is to detect thieves and bring them to justice.

 

THIEF-LEADER

n.[thief and lead. ] One who leads or takes a thief. [Not much used. ]

 

THIEF-TAKER

n.[thief and taker. ] One whose business is to find and take thieves and bring them to justice.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

THIEF

Thief, n.; pl. Thieves. Etym: [OE. thef, theef, AS. ; akin to OFries.thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel., Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. ,, and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or crouch down. Cf. Theft. ]

 

1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth death. Chaucer. Where thieves break through and steal. Matt. vi. 19.

 

2. A waster in the snuff of a candle. Bp. Hall. Thief catcher. Same as Thief taker. -- Thief leader, one who leads or takes away a thief. L'Estrange. -- Thief taker, one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice. -- Thief tube, a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask. -- Thieves' vinegar, a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng. ]

 

Syn. -- Robber; pilferer. -- Thief, Robber. A thief takes our property by stealth; a robber attacks us openly, and strips us by main force. Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night. Shak. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. Milton.

 

THIEFLY

THIEFLY Thief "ly, a. & adv.

 

Defn: Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. [Obs. ] Chaucer.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

thief

thief |THēf θif | ▶noun ( pl. thieves |THēvz | ) a person who steals another person's property, esp. by stealth and without using force or violence. ORIGIN Old English thīof, thēof, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dief and German Dieb, also to theft .

 

Oxford Dictionary

thief

thief |θiːf | ▶noun ( pl. thieves |θiːvz | ) a person who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or threat of violence. ORIGIN Old English thīof, thēof, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dief and German Dieb, also to theft .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

thief

thief noun the thief is at large: robber, burglar, housebreaker, cat burglar, rustler, shoplifter, pickpocket, purse snatcher, sneak thief, mugger; embezzler, swindler, plunderer; criminal, villain; kleptomaniac; bandit, pirate, highwayman; informal crook; literary brigand.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

thief

thief noun robber, burglar, housebreaker, cat burglar, shoplifter, pickpocket, sneak thief, mugger, larcenist, stealer, pilferer, poacher; embezzler, swindler; criminal, villain; kleptomaniac; raider, looter, plunderer, pillager, marauder; bandit, brigand, pirate, highwayman; Indian dacoit; informal crook, cracksman, steamer; N. Amer. informal yegg, second-story man /worker; W. Indian informal tief; Brit. rhyming slang tea leaf; archaic cutpurse, pickpurse, footpad, lurcher; rare peculator, defalcator.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

thief

thief /θiːf /〖語源は 「おびえてひるむ者 」〗名詞 複 thieves /θiːvz /C 泥棒 , こそどろ (!thiefはこっそり盗む者で, robberはおどしや暴力を使う強盗, burglarは建物に侵入する押し入り強盗 ) ▸ A car thief was caught .車泥棒がつかまった ▸ a target for thieves 泥棒の的 ▸ Stop! Thief !待て, 泥棒! (!追いかける時に ) ▸ Death comes like a thief in the night .死はこっそりと忍び寄る ▸ Set a thief to catch a thief .｟ことわざ ｠泥棒に泥棒をつかまえさせよ ; 「蛇 （じや ）の道は蛇 （へび ）」(as ) th ì ck as th í eves とても親密な, 仲のよい .