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Berg

Berg \Berg\, n. [[root]95. See Barrow hill, and cf. Iceberg.] A large mass or hill, as of ice.

Glittering bergs of ice.
--Tennyson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
berg

short for iceberg, attested from 1823.

Wiktionary
berg

n. mountain, a large mass or hill.

WordNet
berg
  1. n. a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier [syn: iceberg]

  2. Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935) [syn: Alban Berg]

Wikipedia
Berg

Berg may refer to:

Berg (state)

Berg was a state – originally a county, later a duchy – in the Rhineland of Germany. Its capital was Düsseldorf. It existed as a distinct political entity from the early 12th to the 19th centuries.

Berg (St. Gallen)
  1. redirect Berg, St. Gallen
Berg (Thurgau)
  1. redirect Berg, Thurgau
Berg (station)

Berg is a station on the Sognsvann Line (line 6) of the Oslo Metro in Norway. Located between Ullevål stadion and Tåsen stations, it is the first station after the Ring Line leaves the Sognsvann Line. The station is located from Stortinget station. Berg is amongst the original stations on the line, and was opened on 10 October 1934. It was upgraded and rebuilt in the 1990s, when the Sognsvann Line was upgraded from light rail to rapid transit standard. Three accidents have taken place at Berg station, the latest in 2008. The area around the station is mainly residential. Berg Upper Secondary School is located approximately from the station.

Berg (surname)

Berg is a surname of North European origin. In several Germanic languages (e.g. German, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish), the word means "mount", "mountain" or "cliff".

Berg (novel)

Berg (1964) was the first novel by the British experimental literary writer Ann Quin.

Usage examples of "berg".

Ida did not see them at first, and Van Berg was again struck by the pallor and stony apathy of her face.

It was ascertained that two agents had been stationed by the postmaster of the Grand Duchy of Berg at Hamburg, in a village called Eschburg belonging to the province of Lauenburg.

We took a path up the Berg among groves of stinkwood and essenwood, where a failing stream made an easy route.

Silent and sinister, its base-shrouded in fog, the berg loomed above Forte and his jet sled like a Matterhorn suspended in space.

Therefore more equipment had to be taken along and cached, simply to resupply the berg ens This was what was in the jerricans and two sandbags, one containing more NEC kit, the other more food plus any batteries and odds and sods.

It took each of us two trips to ferry the berg ens jerricans, and sandbags.

And maybe the jundies would have been so busy looting the berg ens that all that kit would have disappeared anyway.

They climbed on to the ice-cap a little south of Cape Bismarck, and, keeping the nunataks of Dronning Louises Land on their left, travelled for five days on tolerable ice in good weather, with few bergs to surmount and no crevasses to delay them.

My father, Rav Berg, had been raised in a strictly observant Jewish environment in Brooklyn.

My brother, Yehuda, and I read the Zohar, the works of Rabbi Ashlag, and the other sacred texts with our father, Rav Berg, as our guide.

There are no sastruga fields, no snow humps, no crevasses or glaciers, no ice streams flowing through the sheet to calve bergs.

If only I had known where to report, last night, that Heinrich Berg was walking through Mykonos-if only I had tried to get hold of Elias-if only I had telephoned Bannerman in Athens.

There sailed a grand brontosaur, like an arrogant Titanic, headed for unseen collisions with flesh, time, weather, and bergs headed south overland in an Age of Ice.

De toenemende duisternis onttrok de warwinkel van schepen, kranen, pakhuizen en winkels dicht in de buurt van de kaden aan het oog en hun blik werd omhooggetrokken, naar het Galatnapaleis dat als een juweel in de zeegroene vegetatie van de middelste berg was gezet.

Van Berg was reclining under a tree at some little distance from the hotel, stolled thither and threw himself down on the grass beside him.