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Stem vs Steg - What's the difference?

stem | steg |

In obsolete terms the difference between stem and steg

is that stem is to hit with the stem of a ship; to ram while steg is a gander.

As nouns the difference between stem and steg

is that stem is the stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors while steg is a gander.

As verbs the difference between stem and steg

is that stem is to remove the stem from while steg is to conceal (data) by means of steganography.

stem

English

(wikipedia stem)

Etymology 1

(etyl) stemn, .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
  • * Milton
    • all that are of noble stem
  • * Herbert
    • While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
  • A branch of a family.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.
  • An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
  • * Fuller
    • Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
  • (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem .
  • A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
    • the stem of an apple or a cherry
  • *
  • A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
  • (linguistic morphology) The main part of an uninflected]] word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and [[declension, declensions derive from their stems.
  • (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
  • (music) A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.
  • (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
    • Derived terms
    * brain stem * from stem to stern * stem cell * stemless * stemplot * unstemmed

    Verb

    (stemm)
  • To remove the stem from.
    • to stem''' cherries; to '''stem tobacco leaves
  • To be caused]] or [[derive, derived; to originate.
    • The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
  • To descend in a family line.
  • To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
  • (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
    • As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder
  • To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Cognate with German stemmen, Dutch stemmen, stempen; compare (stammer).

    Verb

    (stemm)
  • To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
    • to stem a tide
  • * Denham
    • [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.
  • (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
    • Synonyms
    * (sense) to be due to, to arise from * See also

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)

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    steg

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortening of steganography.

    Verb

  • (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.

    Etymology 2

    From an Icelandic word for the male of several animals. Compare stag.

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gander.
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)

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