different between stey vs steg

English

Noun

stey (plural steys)

1. Alternative form of stee

Anagrams

• Tyes, etys, stye, teys, tyes, yest, yet's, yets

Scots

Adjective

stey (comparative steyer, superlative steyest)

1. (dated) steep (of an ascent or a geographical feature)

Verb

stey (third-person singular present steys, present participle steyin, past steyd, past participle steyd)

1. stay

Noun

stey (plural steys)

1. stay

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??/
• Rhymes: -??

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 (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.

   • 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 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.

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

Etymology 3

From stegosaur

Noun

steg (plural stegs)

1. (formal, regional, derogatory or childish) stegosaur

Anagrams

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

Danish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staj?/, [?sd??j?]
• Rhymes: -aj?

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

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “steg” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste???/, [?sd?e?j], [?sd?e?]

Verb

steg

1. past tense of stige

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /staj?/, [?sd??j?]

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): /ste??/

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.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

steg n

1. a step (pace)

Declension

See also

• stege

Verb

steg

1. past tense of stiga.

Anagrams

• gest, gets, segt, tegs

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse stig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste??/

Noun

steg n (definite steje)

1. Step.