English
steve
see also: Steve, STEVE
Verb

steve (steves, present participle steving; past and past participle steved)

  1. To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.
Noun

steve (plural steves)

  1. Alternative form of STEVE
Steve
Pronunciation Proper noun
  1. A male given name also used as a formal male given name.
    • 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.
  2. A female given name.
    • 1956 Grace Metalious: 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."
Noun

steve (plural steves)

  1. Alternative form of STEVE. An atmospheric optical phenomenon, appearing as a ribbon of light in the sky.
STEVE
Noun

steve (uncountable)

  1. An aurora-like light found in southern Canada (consistently lower latitude, unlike the aurora borealis which is generally high latitude), composed of a glowing purple ribbon of light, with green spikes coming off obliquely parallel to each other, moving at about 6.5 km/s East to West. Presumably occurs in the southern hemisphere as well.
    • 2018, "On the Origin of STEVE: Particle Precipitation or Ionospheric Skyglow?", Geophysical Research Letters, B. Gallardo‐Lacourt; J. Liang; Y. Nishimura; E. Donovan;, DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078509
      Although STEVE has been documented by amateur night sky watchers for decades, it is an exciting new upper atmospheric phenomenon for the scientific community.
    • 2018, "Historical observations of STEVE", arXiv, Mark Bailey; Conor Byrne; Rok Nezic; David Asher; James Finnegan;, BIBCODE: 2018arXiv180801872B
      Respecting its nickname, they have dubbed the phenomenon STEVE, an acronym for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement.
    • 2018, "New science in plain sight: Citizen scientists lead to the discovery of optical structure in the upper atmosphere", Science Advances, Elizabeth A. MacDonald et al.;, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0030
      First, in the unfiltered white-light STEVE is a narrow purple band with the strongest emissions saturating to white


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