steg

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɛɡ/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1

Shortening of steganography.

Verb

steg (third-person singular simple present stegs, present participle stegging, simple past and past participle stegged)

1. (transitive, informal) To conceal (data) by means of steganography.
   • 1994, Virtual Bob, “Crypto Maniac”, in comp.sys.mac.programmer (Usenet):

     Stego rasterizes the image, then stegs data into the least significant bit (or LSB) of each of the RGB color values.

   • 2002, the Pull, “getting started”, in alt.fan.cult-dead-cow (Usenet):

     Another project being worked on is stegging banned religious books from every language and putting them on the web.

   • 2004, David Clarke, Technology and terrorism:

     It has become an article of faith that bin Laden and his associates routinely communicate through stegged messages posted on pornographic Web sites.

   • 2008, Steve Walker, “Sick evil perverted pedos now helping terrorists.”, in uk.legal (Usenet):

     Sounds like nonsense to me - if you're going to pass stegged files there's plenty of anonymous dropfile sites, no need to use CP facilities which are likely to be subject to extra law enforcement, surveillance and site takedowns etc.

Etymology 2

From Middle English steg, from Old Norse steggr, a word for the male of several animals, from Proto-Germanic *staggijaz. Compare stag.

Alternative forms

• stag

Noun

steg (plural stegs)

1. (obsolete) A gander.
   • 1809, Thomas Bewick, History of British Birds:

     […] the males [geese] (Gander or Steg)

References

• “steg”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• -gest, Gest, Gets, gest, gest-, gets, tegs

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse steik f (“roast”), from Proto-Germanic *staikō. Related to the verb *stikaną (“to stick”). English steak is borrowed from Old Norse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stajˀ/,
• Rhymes: -ajˀ

Noun

steg c (singular definite stegen, plural indefinite stege)

1. joint (a cut of meat)
2. roast (a cut of meat suited to roasting)
3. roast meat, roast dinner
4. (slang) attractive person

Declension

Derived terms

References

• “steg” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steːˀɣ/, ,

Verb

steg

1. past tense of stige

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stajˀ/,

Verb

steg

1. imperative of stege

Middle English

Noun

steg

1. Alternative form of stagge

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

steg n (definite singular steget, indefinite plural steg, definite plural stega or stegene)

1. step

Synonyms

• skritt

References

• “steg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Verb

steg

1. simple past of stige

Alternative forms

• steig

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse stig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /steːɡ/

Noun

steg n (definite singular steget, indefinite plural steg, definite plural stega)

1. a step
2. a pace (the distance covered in a step)

Synonyms

• skritt

References

• “steg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• stijȇg (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stěgъ.

Noun

stȇg m (Cyrillic spelling сте̑г)

1. flagpole, flagstaff

Swedish

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

steg n

1. a step (pace)

Declension

See also

• stege

Verb

steg

1. past indicative of stiga

Further reading

• steg in Svensk ordbok.

Anagrams

• gest, gets, segt, tegs