STEG

Definition: STEG

STEG

Noun

1. A gander.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "STEG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Note: Steg \Steg\, noun. [Icel. steggr the male of several animals. Compare to Stag.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: STEG

Non-English Usage: "STEG" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (hedge), German (bridge, catwalk, footbridge, landing stage, path, rest, strap, web), Serbo-Croatian (gonfalon), Swedish (footstep, gate, pace, pas, step, steps, stride, tread, trod).

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Commercial Usage: STEG

Domain	Title
Books	Emigrantforska! : steg för steg (reference) Hembygdsforska! : steg för steg (reference) Historiske Halden : med kjappe steg og sirlige streker (reference) Några steg mot tystnaden En roman om fångna (reference) Norsk �konomi 1988-1991 : hvorfor steg arbeidsledigheten så mye? (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: STEG

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Fortsatt oka valfriheten for aldre! : nasta steg, ratt till arbete efter 65 : Folkpartiet. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: STEG

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Morocco	Members of the Comelec, a North African regional power commission, include the state-owned electric utilities of "Office National de l'Electricite" (Morocco), Sonelgaz (Algeria), and Steg (Tunisia). (references)
	Tunisia	STEG, THE STATE ELECTRICITY AND GAS UTILITY, HAS AMBITIOUS PLANS TO BRING AN ADDITIONAL 100 - 300 MW ON LINE EVERY TWO YEARS BEGINNING IN 2001. STEG SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH AN AMERICAN-LED CONSORTIUM TO BUILD-OWN-OPERATE (BOO) A 470 MW COMBINED CYCLE ELECTRICAL POWER PLANT IN 1999 AND CONSTRUCTION IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: STEG

"STEG" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "STEG" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	50%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)	30%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	10%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	10%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STEG

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
steg	6
gampel steg	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: STEG

Derivations
	Words beginning with "STEG": stegodon, stegodons, stegosaur, stegosaurs, stegosaurus, stegosauruses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "STEG"

Words ending with "eg": Cleg, Gleg, keg, skeg, teg. (additional references)

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Anagrams: STEG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: gest, gets, tegs.
	Words within the letters "e-g-s-t"
	-1 letter: get, seg, set, teg.
	-2 letters: es, et.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-s-t"
	+1 letter: egest, gates, geest, gelts, gents, geste, gests, getas, guest, stage.
	+2 letters: agates, ageist, agents, aglets, begets, degust, digest, egesta, egests, egoist, egrets, eights, ergots, gamest, gasket, gasted, gaster, gayest, geests, gemots, genets, gentes, gestes, gestic, getups, gleets, godets, grates, greats, greets, guests, gusset, gusted, hugest, ingest, legist, legits, retags, sagest, signet, staged, stager, stages, stagey, stodge, stogey, stogie, stooge, targes, teguas, thegns, tigers, tinges, togues.
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