Iceberg

Definition: Iceberg

Iceberg

Noun

1. A large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier.

Date "iceberg" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Etymology: Iceberg \Ice"berg`\, noun. [Probably of Scand. origin; compare to Danish iisbierg, Swedish isberg, properly, mountain of ice. See Ice, and Berg.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Iceberg

Domain	Definitions
Geography	A massive piece of iceof greatly varying shape, more than 5 m above sea-level, which has broken away from a glacier, and which may be afloat or aground. Icebergs may be described as tabular, dome-shaped, sloping, pinnacled, weathered or glacier bergs. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Iceberg A hill of ice, either floating in the ocean, or aground. The magnitude of some icebergs is very great. One seen off the Cape of Good Hope was two miles in circumference, and a hundred and fifty feet high. For every cubic foot above water there must be at least eight feet below. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mining	A large, massive piece of floating or stranded glacier ice of any shape, detached (calved) from the front of a glacier into a body of water. An iceberg extends more than 5 m above sea level and has the greater part of its mass (four-fifths to eight-ninths) below sea level. It may reach alength of more than 80 km. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Iceberg

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

An iceberg is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water.

Antarctic iceberg -
composed image
(photo Uwe Kils) from [1])

Typically, around 8/9 of the volume of an iceberg is under water, and that portion's shape can be difficult to surmise from looking at what is visible above the surface. The mass can be very durable and can easily damage sheet metal. As a result of these factors, icebergs are considered extremely dangerous hazards to shipping. The International Ice Patrol exists to monitor the presence of icebergs in the northern Atlantic Ocean and report their movements for safety purposes.

The most famous sinking from an iceberg collision was the destruction of the RMS Titanic on April 14, 1912.

Iceberg seen from space

External links

Iceberg gallery

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Iceberg."

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Synonym: Iceberg

Synonym: berg (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Iceberg

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.

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Crosswords: Iceberg

English words defined with "iceberg": growler ♦ iceberg lettuce. (references)

Specialty definitions using "iceberg": barrier berg ♦ floe berg ♦ glacier berg, glacier iceberg ♦ table iceberg, tabular berg, tabular iceberg. (references)

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

French (iceberg), Italian (iceberg, icebergs), Portuguese (iceberg), Spanish (Berg, iceberg).

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Modern Usage: Iceberg

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You don't stop to yell at the iceberg. (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster)
Lyrics	I'm buyin if you got nice curves for your iceberg ("Shake Ya Ass"; performing artist: Mystikal)
Clever	True power is when what you say is only the tip of the iceberg of what you really know. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Home of the Iceberg (1948) The Birth of an Iceberg (1921)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Iceberg

Domain	Title
Books	Elizabeth Imagined an Iceberg (reference) Iceberg (reference) La nana y el iceberg (reference) The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim (reference) The Nanny and the Iceberg (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Iceberg (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Cops the Case of the Iceberg Pirates (reference) Ice-T: Iceberg (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Alive Before the Iceberg [LIVE] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Link Cable Playline - Iceberg Blue (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Iceberg Lightweight Hand Truck, 200 Lb. Capacity, 6in. Wheels (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Iceberg

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Photo Album: Iceberg

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"The first iceberg." P. 10. In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume I. Page 10.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		An iceberg in Gerlache Strait.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	The first iceberg seen during the expedition.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Passing an iceberg on a gray day.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Iceberg.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		A large tabular iceberg off the Antarctic Peninsula.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Adelie penguins on a small iceberg off the Antarctic Peninsula.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Grounded tabular iceberg at Cape Washington in the Ross Sea.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Iceberg Point on Lopez Island in San Juan County, Washington: Area of Critical Environmental Concern.Credit: Neal Hedges.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Iceberg

Speaker	Phrase(s)
George Will	Well, I think it is about right as long as you understand that that is the tip of the al Qaeda iceberg and the al Qaeda iceberg is just a part of this.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Iceberg

"Iceberg" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.48% of the time. "Iceberg" is used about 158 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)	78.48%	124	28,785
Noun (proper)	15.19%	24	71,196
Adjective (general or positive)	5.06%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.63%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	0.63%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	158	N/A

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

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Expressions: Iceberg

Expressions using "iceberg": glacier iceberg ♦ iceberg lettuce ♦ table iceberg ♦ tabular iceberg. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "iceberg": iceberg-and-tombstone, iceberg-tip.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Iceberg

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
iceberg	2,404
iceberg clothing	171
iceberg jean	110
iceberg history	105
iceberg slim	98
iceberg picture	56
titanic iceberg	46
iceberg clothes	43
iceberg photograph	37
iceberg history clothing	32
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Iceberg

Language		Translations for "iceberg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ajsberg. (various references)

Arabic		‏جبل جليدي في البحر, ‏شخص باردا عاطفيا. (various references)

Bulgarian		айсберг. (various references)

Chinese		冰山 . (various references)

Czech		ledovec (glacier), ledová kra (ice floe). (various references)

Danish		isfjeld, isbjerg (calf, calf ice, growler). (various references)

Dutch		ijsberg. (various references)

Esperanto		glacimonto. (various references)

Farsi		کوه یخ شناور, توده یخ غلتان (Glacier), توده یخ شناور. (various references)

Finnish		jäävuori. (various references)

French		iceberg. (various references)

German		Eisberg (glacier). (various references)

Greek		παγόβουνο. (various references)

Hebrew		קרחון (glacier). (various references)

Hungarian		úszó jéghegy. (various references)

Indonesian		gunung es. (various references)

Italian		iceberg (icebergs). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		氷山 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひょうざ�". (various references)

Korean		빙산. (various references)

Manx		cronk rioee, burroo rioee, beinn rioee. (various references)

Norwegian		isfjell. (various references)

Pig Latin		icebergay.(various references)

Portuguese		icebergue (Berg), iceberg, massa de gelo flutuante (flog), água gelada (cold water). (various references)

Romanian		sloi de gheaţã (floe, icicle, pan), gheţar (fridge, glacier, ice box, refrigerator), aisberg. (various references)

Russian		айсберг (berg). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		santa leda (block of ice, drift ice, glare, ice floe). (various references)

Spanish		iceberg (Berg). (various references)

Swedish		isberg. (various references)

Thai		� ูเขาน้ำแข็ง. (various references)

Turkish		soğuk ve duygusuz kimse, buzdağı (Berg, drift ice), aysberg (drift ice). (various references)

Ukranian		айсберг. (various references)

Vietnamese		núi băng trôi. (various references)

Welsh		rhewfryn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Iceberg

Derivations
	Words beginning with "iceberg": icebergs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Iceberg" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Axenberg, Coberg, Eilenberg, Esjberg, icberg, iceburg, inebeg, Isenberg, Isenburg, Isiboro, Liseberg, Oseberg, Rietberg. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Iceberg"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "iceberg" (pronounced ī"sberg)
3	-b er g	Hamburg, Homburg.
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Anagrams: Iceberg

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-g-i-r"
	-2 letters: beige, giber, grebe, rebec.
	-3 letters: beer, berg, bice, bier, bree, brie, brig, cere, cire, crib, eger, gibe, gree, rice.
	-4 letters: bee, beg, big, cee, cig, ere, erg, gee, gib, gie, ice, ire, reb, rec, ree, reg, rei, rib, rig.
	-5 letters: be, bi, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-g-i-r"
	+1 letter: icebergs.
	+2 letters: bigeneric, breeching.
	+3 letters: breechings.
	+4 letters: becarpeting, bedcovering, bedrenching, bescreening, celebrating, cerebrating, embryogenic, encumbering, reobjecting, unbreeching.
	+5 letters: bedcoverings, belligerence, belligerency, bioenergetic, buccaneering, exacerbating, greenbackism, recognizable, redescribing.
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