As proper nouns the difference between steve and steve
is that steve is a diminutive of Steven and Stephen, also used as a formal male given name while Steve is a diminutive of Steven and Stephen, also used as a formal male given name.
As verbs the difference between steve and steve
is that steve is to pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold while steve is to pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.
steve
English
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
A diminutive of Steven and Stephen, also used as a formal male given name.
.
Quotations
*
1989 Ann Beattie:
Picturing Will , Random House, ISBN 0394569873, page 67:
*: His first name was probably
Steve' or Ed. No, there were no more ' Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael.
*
1956 :
Peyton Place , UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book Three,Chapter 13,
*: Allison made a careful note of the address and within the hour she had met, decided she liked, and moved in with a girl of twenty who called herself
Steve Wallace.
*: "Don't call me Stephanie",
Steve had said. "I don't know why it should, but being called Stephanie always makes me feel like something pale and dull out of Jane Austen."
English diminutives of male given names
steve
English
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
A diminutive of Steven and Stephen, also used as a formal male given name.
.
Quotations
*
1989 Ann Beattie:
Picturing Will , Random House, ISBN 0394569873, page 67:
*: His first name was probably
Steve' or Ed. No, there were no more ' Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael.
*
1956 :
Peyton Place , UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book Three,Chapter 13,
*: Allison made a careful note of the address and within the hour she had met, decided she liked, and moved in with a girl of twenty who called herself
Steve Wallace.
*: "Don't call me Stephanie",
Steve had said. "I don't know why it should, but being called Stephanie always makes me feel like something pale and dull out of Jane Austen."
English diminutives of male given names