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Definition: Berg |
BergNoun1. A large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "berg" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
Synonym: BergSynonym: iceberg (n). (additional references) |
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Berg is the name of:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Berg."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cold | Ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze, lolly; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_e, serac; pruina. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Berg |
| Specialty definitions using "berg": barrier berg, Berg Folk ♦ floe berg ♦ glacier berg ♦ tabular berg. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "berg": Bergmeal ♦ iceberg. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Berg" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (mountain), Dutch (mountain), Faeroese (precipice), German (fell, heap, Hill, mass, Mount, mountain, pile, tor), Swedish (fell, Hill, Mount, mountain, mountain chain, mountains, outcrop, outcropp, rock). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at me. Berg, I'm gonna be 25 and I don't even know where my life is - and the one good thing I had, I messed up! When my dad was my age, he had a house, he had a wife, he had me! I mean, what do I have? (Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place; writing credit: Pat Bullard) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Gertrude Berg Show (1961) Med Gunnar Nu-Hansen og Kai Berg Madsen gennem Amerika (1956) Der Laufende Berg (1941) Kampf um den Berg - Eine Hochtour vor 20 Jahren (1941) Der Berg ruft! (1938) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cushing Glacier gives birth to a berg.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Small ice berg inTracy Arm area - Stephens Passage.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Boat picking its way through an ice berg field.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Orange, white, and blue - survey launch next to ice berg.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | An orange boat accentuated by the blue water and bright white ice berg.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A boat's eyeview of an ice berg Tied up to berg while collecting water.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | On a fresh water collecting expedition Pools of fresh water form on the top of the berg.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Ice in Peltier Channel - large white ice berg is 50 to 100 feet high. 64 52 S Latitude 63 32 W Longitude.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | The United States Revenue Cutter MIAMI close to an iceberg similar to that which destroyed the TITANIC. On April 27, 1914, Fessenden oscillator was tested off the MIAMI and received signals both from an ice berg and the bottom. In "Submarine Signaling," Scientific American Supplement, No. 2071, pp. 168-170, Sept. 11, 1915.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Andrew Berg talks with the Pulblic Lands Day tour group about a seismic hypothisis for the numerous mima mounds in the area.Credit: Mike Sweeney. |
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Economic History | Namibia | Later inhabitants include the Nama and the Damara or Berg Dama. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Berg" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.93% of the time. "Berg" is used about 193 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 (proper) | 97.93% | 189 | 22,353 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.55% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.52% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "berg" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Berg | Last name | 16,000 | 759 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Sweden | AB C F Berg & Co |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "berg": barrier berg ♦ floe berg ♦ glacier berg ♦ tabular berg. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "berg": berg-like. | |
Ending with "berg": ice-berg, thorstvedt-berg. | |
Containing "berg": Wein-berg-salam. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
berg | 252 | paul berg | 14 |
berg andrea | 70 | david berg | 14 |
elizabeth berg | 67 | al berg | 13 |
ice berg | 65 | berg jocke | 13 |
berg furniture | 61 | balance berg scale | 13 |
carmen berg | 47 | berg prenzlauer | 12 |
berg connector | 47 | berg baby furniture | 11 |
peter berg | 44 | alan berg | 11 |
matraca berg | 40 | anthon berg | 10 |
fci berg | 39 | balance berg test | 9 |
gene berg | 38 | chris berg | 9 |
humes and berg | 28 | berg patty | 9 |
wm berg | 27 | berg larsen | 9 |
alban berg | 25 | insoo kim berg | 8 |
berg electronic | 24 | berg emma sjã | 8 |
berg electronics | 23 | carol berg | 8 |
bob berg | 18 | berg m w | 8 |
patti berg | 17 | berg bob buckle | 8 |
moe berg | 16 | berg lake | 7 |
van den berg | 15 | berg joakim | 7 |
berg crib | 14 | berg kicki | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "berg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Mollok Akulli (block of ice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Айсберг. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Berg's regel (Berg rule), Berg's kassetteramme (Berg cassette frame, Berg spotfilming device), Berg's differentiering (Berg differentiation), uregelmaessigt isfjeld (glacier berg), taffelformet isfjeld (tabular berg), skrueis (floe berg), gletscherisbjerg (glacier berg, glacier iceberg), fladt isbjerg (barrier berg, table iceberg, tabular berg, tabular iceberg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tafelvormige ijsberg (tabular berg), tafelijsberg (tabular berg), plaatvormige ijsberg (barrier berg, table iceberg, tabular berg, tabular iceberg), kleine ijsberg (glacier berg, glacier iceberg), ijsberg afkomstig van gletschers (glacier berg), gekruide ijsschollen (floe berg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کوه یخ(شناور), قطعه عظیم یخ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | röykkiölautta (floe berg), pöytämäinen jäävuori (barrier berg, table iceberg, tabular berg, tabular iceberg), epäsäännöllinen jäävuori (glacier berg, glacier iceberg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | banquise en forme de monticules (floe berg), petit iceberg (glacier berg), loi de Berg (Berg rule), iceberg tabulaire (barrier berg, tabular berg), iceberg de glacier (glacier berg), différenciation de Berg (Berg differentiation), cadre de cassette de Berg (Berg cassette frame, Berg spotfilming device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Berg Zielgeraet (Berg cassette frame, Berg spotfilming device), Berg Regel (Berg rule), Berg Kassettenrahmen (Berg cassette frame, Berg spotfilming device), Berg Differenzierung (Berg differentiation), Tafeleisberg (tabular berg), schwimmender Eisberg (floe berg), Gletschereisberg (glacier berg), Eisschollenberg (floe berg), Eisbergbarriere (barrier berg, table iceberg, tabular berg, tabular iceberg), Eisberg bestehend aus Gletschermaterial (glacier berg, glacier iceberg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αγόβουνο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jéghegy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piccolo iceberg (glacier berg, glacier iceberg), iceberg tabulare (barrier berg, table iceberg, tabular berg, tabular iceberg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | slieau (fell, hillside, moor, mountain), burroo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ergbay Icebergue (iceberg). (various references) Айсберг. (various references) breg (cam, hillock), skraćenica za ice berg. (various references) Iceberg (iceberg). (various references) taffelisberg (tabular berg), tabulärt isberg (barrier berg, table iceberg, tabular berg, tabular iceberg), platåisberg (tabular berg), oregelbundet isberg (glacier berg), isberg från glaciär (glacier berg, glacier iceberg). (various references) Buzdağı (drift ice, iceberg). (various references) Айсберг. (various references) đ"i (kopje, mound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 10, Verse 29 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ocurwma osiou foboV kuriou suntribh de toiV ergazomenoiV kaka |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Fortitudo simplicis via Domini et pavor his qui operantur malum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Dryhtnes weg is þam rihtwisan berg,ac forwyrd þam þe yfel doð. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The strengthe of the simple the weie of the Lord; and ferd to them that werken euel. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 10, Verse 29 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang dalan ni Jehova maoy usa ka malig-ong salipdanan sa tawong matul-id; Apan kini maoy usa ka pagkalaglag sa mga mamumuhat sa kasal-anan. |
| Chinese | 耶 ' 華 的 " 、 是 正 直 人 的 保 障 ． 卻 成 了 作 孽 人 的 敗 壞 。 |
| Croatian | Gospodnji je put okrilje bezazlenu, a propast onima koji èine zlo. |
| Danish | For lydefri Vandel er HERREN et Værn, men en Rædsel for Udådsmænd. |
| Dutch | De weg des HEEREN is voor den oprechte sterkte; maar voor de werkers der ongerechtigheid verstoring. |
| Finnish | Herran johdatus on nuhteettoman turva, mutta väärintekijäin turmio. |
| French | La voie de l`Éternel est un rempart pour l`intégrité, Mais elle est une ruine pour ceux qui font le mal. |
| German | Der Weg des HERRN ist des Frommen Trotz; aber die Übeltäter sind blöde. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Chemen Bondye se yon pwoteksyon pou moun ki serye. Men, l'ap detwi moun k'ap fè mal yo. |
| Hungarian | Erõsség a tökéletesnek az Úrnak úta: de romlás a hamisság cselekedõinek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | TUHAN melindungi orang jujur, tetapi membinasakan orang yang berbuat jahat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa jalan Tuhan itu kekuatan bagi orang-orang saleh, tetapi suatu kebinasaan bagi segala orang yang berbuat jahat. |
| Italian | La via del Signore è una fortezza per l'uomo retto, mentre è una rovina per i malfattori. |
| Maori | ¶ He kaha mo te tangata tika ta Ihowa ara; he whakangaromanga ia mo nga kaimahi i te kino. |
| Norwegian | Herrens vei er en fast borg for den ustraffelige, men den er ødeleggelse for dem som gjør urett. |
| Portuguese | O caminho do Senhor é fortaleza para os retos; mas é destruição para os que praticam a iniqüidade. |
| Rumanian | Calea Domnului este un zid de apqrare pentru cel nevinovat, dar este o topenie pentru cei ce fac rqul. - |
| Russian | рХФШ зПУ П"ЕОШ--ФЧЕТ"ЩОС "МС ОЕ ПТПЮОПЗП Й УФТБИ "МС "ЕМБАЭЙИ 'ЕЪЪБЛПОЙЕ. |
| Spanish | Jehovah es la fortaleza del íntegro de camino, pero es espanto para los que obran maldad. |
| Swedish | HERRENS vägar äro den ostraffliges värn, men till olycka för ogärningsmännen. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "berg": bergamot, bergamots, bergere, bergeres, bergs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "berg": iceberg, inselberg, svedberg. (additional references) | |
Words containing "berg": ambergris, ambergrises, auberge, auberges, aubergine, aubergines, fiberglass, fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fiberglassing, flabbergast, flabbergasted, flabbergasting, flabbergastingly, flabbergasts, habergeon, habergeons, icebergs, inselberge, inselbergs, svedbergs. (additional references) | |
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"Berg" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barag, barg, bargo, barog, beeg, begr, begry, behr, belg, beng, Benrig, ber, bera, Beragh, berc, berge, bergii, bergo, beri, Berj, berl, bero, berp, berq, berr, berra, bert, beru, berz, Betrvg, bher, birg, birv, borg, borgi, breg, Bregy, Breig, brev, brj, Bverfgg, ebdg, ferg, gerg, jerg, nber, nerg, Oberg, werg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "berg" (pronounced ber"g) |
| 3 | b er" g | Burg. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-r" | |
-1 letter: beg, erg, reb, reg. | |
-2 letters: be, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-r" | |
+1 letter: barge, bergs, giber, grebe. | |
+2 letters: badger, bagger, banger, barege, barged, bargee, barges, bedrug, beggar, begird, begirt, begrim, bigger, binger, booger, borage, bregma, bridge, brogue, budger, bugger, bugler, bulger, burgee, burger, burgle, gabber, garbed, garble, gerbil, gibber, gibers, goober, graben, grebes, redbug. | |
+3 letters: abridge, algebra, auberge, badgers, baggers, baggier, bangers, bareges, bargees, barrage, bearhug, bearing, bedrugs, beggars, beggary, begirds, begorah, begorra, begrime, begrims, begroan, bergere, bilgier, bingers, bludger, blunger, boggier, boggler, boogers, borages, bragged, bragger, brewage, brewing, bridged, bridges, brigade, bringer, brogues, brokage, budgers, bugbear, buggers, buggery, buggier, buglers, bulgers, bulgier, bungler, burgage, burgees, burgeon, burgers, burgess, burgher, burgled, burgles, embargo, firebug, gabbers, gabbier, gabbler, gambier, gambler, gambrel, garbage, garbled, garbler, garbles, gearbox, gerbera, gerbils, gibbers, gilbert, glibber, gobbler, goobers, grabbed, grabber, grabble, grabens, gribble, grubbed, grubber, grumble, herbage, iceberg, kerbing, megabar, obliger, overbig, rebegan, rebegin, rebegun, redbugs, rugbies, umbrage. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 72 67 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110010 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e r g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0072 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36718473 |
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