steg

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See also: Steg and šteg

English

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Etymology 1

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Shortening of steganography.

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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

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

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Noun

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steg (plural stegs)

  1. (obsolete) A gander.
    • 1809, Thomas Bewick, History of British Birds:
      [] the males [geese] (Gander or Steg)

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Danish

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Etymology 1

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

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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
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

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steg

  1. past tense of stige

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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  • IPA(key): /stajˀ/, [ˈsd̥ɑjˀ]

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steg

  1. imperative of stege

Middle English

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steg

  1. Alternative form of stagge

Norwegian Bokmål

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

  1. step

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steg

  1. simple past of stige

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From Old Norse stig.

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

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

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Serbo-Croatian

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stěgъ.

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stȇg m (Cyrillic spelling сте̑г)

  1. flagpole, flagstaff

Swedish

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steg n

  1. a step (with the foot, sometimes figuratively)
    Conny tog några steg mot köket
    Conny took a few steps towards the kitchen
    steg för steg
    step by step
    Vi vill ta det ett steg längre
    We want to take it one step further
    • 2001, Caramell (lyrics and music), “Caramelldansen [The Caramell dance ("karamell" is the usual spelling)]”, in Supergott [Super tasty]‎[1]:
      Dansa med oss. Klappa era händer. Gör som vi gör och ta några steg åt vänster. Lyssna och lär. Missa inte chansen. Nu är vi här med Caramelldansen.
      Dance with us. Clap your hands. Do as we do and take a few steps to the left. Listen and learn. Don't miss the chance. Now we are here with the Caramell dance.
  2. a step (in a staircase or the like)
    Trappan har tjugo steg
    The staircase has twenty steps
  3. a step (in a process or the like)
    Nästa steg i processen är att föra in bränslestavarna
    The next step in the process is to insert the fuel rods
    1. a stage (of certain devices)
      förstärkarsteg
      amplifier stage
      slutsteg
      output stage
      (literally, “end stage”)
      raketsteg
      rocket stage

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steg

  1. past indicative of stiga

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