Stet vs Steg - What's the difference?
stet | steg |
A symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out should still remain. This is usually marked by writing and circling the word stet above or beside the unwanted edit and underscoring the selection with dashes or dots. Alternatively, a circled checkmark may be used in the margin.
The act of marking previously edited material "stet" to indicate that something previously marked for change should remain as is.
(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 )
As nouns the difference between stet and steg
is that stet is a symbol used by proofreaders and typesetters to indicate that a word or phrase that was crossed out should still remain this is usually marked by writing and circling the word stet above or beside the unwanted edit and underscoring the selection with dashes or dots alternatively, a circled checkmark may be used in the margin while steg is river wharf.As a verb stet
is the act of marking previously edited material "stet" to indicate that something previously marked for change should remain as is.stet
English
(wikipedia stet)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stett)- Stet that colon.
See also
* stet docket * stet processusAnagrams
* ----steg
English
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.