Stag vs Steg - What's the difference?
stag | steg |
An adult male deer.
A colt, or filly.
(by extension, obsolete) A romping girl.
An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – called also a bull seg. See the Note under ox.
An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
The European wren, .
An unmarried male, a bachelor; a male not accompanying a female at a social event.
A social event for males held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom, sometimes a fund-raiser.
(British) To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks.
To watch; to dog, or keep track of.
Of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.
(informal) To conceal (data) by means of steganography.
* 1994 , "Virtual Bob", Crypto Maniac'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.mac.programmer )
* 2002 , "the Pull", getting started'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.fan.cult-dead-cow )
* 2004 , David Clarke, Technology and terrorism
* 2008 , "Steve Walker", Sick evil perverted pedos now helping terrorists.'' (on Internet newsgroup ''uk.legal )
Steg is a alternative form of stag.
As nouns the difference between stag and steg
is that stag is an adult male deer while steg is a gander.As verbs the difference between stag and steg
is that stag is to act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks while steg is to conceal (data) by means of steganography.As an adverb stag
is of a man, attending a formal social function without a date.stag
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal), (l) (Scotland), (l), (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The stag will be held in the hotel's ballroom
Synonyms
* (social event) bachelor party (US''), stag do (''UK informal ), stag partyDerived terms
* stag beetle * stag do * stag night * stag partyVerb
(stagg)Adverb
(-)- My brother went stag to prom because he couldn't find a date.
See also
* bachelorette party, hen party (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* * *steg
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Etymology 1
Shortening of steganography.Verb
- Stego rasterizes the image, then stegs data into the least significant bit (or LSB) of each of the RGB color values.
- Another project being worked on is stegging banned religious books from every language and putting them on the web.
- It has become an article of faith that bin Laden and his associates routinely communicate through stegged messages posted on pornographic Web sites.
- 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.
