steg

• IPA^(key): /stɛɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Shortening of steganography.

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.

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

• stag

steg (plural stegs)

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

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

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /stajˀ/, [ˈsd̥ɑjˀ]
• Rhymes: -ajˀ

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

• “steg” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /steːˀɣ/, [ˈsd̥eˀj], [ˈsd̥eˀ]

steg

1. past tense of stige

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /stajˀ/, [ˈsd̥ɑjˀ]

steg

1. imperative of stege

steg

1. Alternative form of stagge

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

1. step

• skritt

• “steg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

steg

1. simple past of stige

• steig

From Old Norse stig.

• IPA^(key): /steːɡ/

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

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

• skritt

• “steg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• stijȇg (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stěgъ.

stȇg m (Cyrillic spelling сте̑г)

1. flagpole, flagstaff

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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steg n

1. a step (pace)

• stege

steg

1. past indicative of stiga

• steg in Svensk ordbok.

• gest, gets, segt, tegs