steg

See also: Steg and šteg

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Etymology 1

Shortening of steganography.

Verb

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

(transitive, informal) To conceal (data) by means of steganography.
- 1994, "Virtual Bob", Crypto Maniac (on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.mac.programmer)
  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 (on Internet newsgroup alt.fan.cult-dead-cow)
  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. (on Internet newsgroup uk.legal)
  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 stegge, 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)

(obsolete) A gander.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for steg in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Gest, gest, gets, tegs

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse steik (“roast”). Compare English steak.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /staj/, [sd̥ɑjˀ]
Rhymes: -ajˀ

Noun

steg c (singular definite stegen, plural indefinite stege)

joint (a cut of meat)
roast (a cut of meat suited to roasting)
roast meat, roast dinner
attractive person

Inflection

Declension of steg

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	steg	stegen	stege	stegene
genitive	stegs	stegens	steges	stegenes

Etymology 2

See stige (“to ascend, increase, rise”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /steːj/, [sd̥eːˀj]

Verb

steg

past tense of stige

References

“steg” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

step

Synonyms

skritt

References

“steg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Verb

steg

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)

a step
a pace (the distance covered in a step)

Synonyms

skritt

References

“steg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

steg n

a step (pace)

Declension

Declension of steg
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	steg	steget	steg	stegen
Genitive	stegs	stegets	stegs	stegens

Verb

steg

past tense of stiga.

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse stig.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /steːɣ/

Noun

steg n (definite steje)

Step.