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berg
1[ burg ]
Berg
2[ bergor, German berk burg ]
noun
- · [ahl-, bahn, ahl, -bahn], 1885–1935, Austrian composer, noted for bringing expressive emotion to the twelve-tone technique.
- Patricia Jane Patty, 1918–2006, U.S. golfer: a founding member of the LPGA.
- Paul, 1926–2023, U.S. biochemist: shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980.
Berg
1/ ɜːɡ; bɛrk /
noun
- BergAlban (Maria Johannes)18851935MAustrianMUSIC: composer Alban ( Maria Johannes ) (ˈalbaːn). 1885–1935, Austrian composer: a pupil of Schoenberg. His works include the operas Wozzeck (1921) and Lulu (1935), a violin concerto (1935), chamber works, and songs
- BergPaul1926MUSSCIENCE: biologist Paul . born 1926, US molecular biologist, the first to identify transfer RNA (1956). Nobel prize for chemistry 1980
berg
2/ ɜːɡ /
noun
- short for iceberg
berg
3/ ɜːɡ /
noun
- a South African word for mountain
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Word History and Origins
Origin of berg1
First recorded in 1815–25; by shortening
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It's the first hard evidence that the ice sheet formerly covering Britain and Ireland produced such large bergs.
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This was meant to put boosters on the near-trillion-tonne berg, rifling it up into the South Atlantic and certain oblivion.
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About 75% of the continent's margin has floating platforms of ice that can eject bergs.
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The berg is expected shortly to step into a powerful current that will sweep it away into the Southern Ocean.
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The berg is being ground down by the warmer air and surface waters it's encountering as it drifts slowly away from the White Continent.
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