steg

• 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 (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.

From Middle English stegge, 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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

• Gest, gest, gets, tegs

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

• IPA^(key): /staj/, [sd̥ɑjˀ]
• 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. attractive person

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

• IPA^(key): /steːj/, [sd̥eːˀj]

steg

1. past tense of stige

• “steg” in Den Danske Ordbog

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.

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steg n

1. a step (pace)

• stege

steg

1. past tense of stiga.

From Old Norse stig.

• IPA^(key): /steːɣ/

steg n (definite steje)

1. Step.