What is "berlin"

Berlin \Ber"lin\, n. [The capital of Prussia]

1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

2. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.

   Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware.
   --Ure.

   Berlin blue, Prussian blue.
   --Ure.

   Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue.

   Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze.

   Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work.

   Berlin work, worsted embroidery.

city in Brandenburg, capital of Germany, traditionally by folk-etymology from German Bär "bear," but likely from a Slavic source, compare Old Polabian berl-, birl- "swamp," in reference to the old city's location on low, marshy ground along the River Spree. A flashpoint city in the Cold War, the Berlin airlift ran from June 28, 1948 to May 12, 1949. The Berlin Wall began to be built Aug. 15, 1961, and was effective until Nov. 9, 1989.

old type of four-wheeled covered carriage, 1690s, so called because it was introduced in Brandenburg, c.1670; see Berlin. Hence berline (from the French form) "automobile with a glass partition behind the driver's seat." In reference to a type of wool and the popular patterns made for it, from 1841.

n. A four-wheeled carriage with a separate sheltered seat behind the body.

Berlin is an American new wave band. The group was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by John Crawford (bass guitar). Band members included Crawford, Terri Nunn (vocals), David Diamond (keyboards), Ric Olsen (guitar), Matt Reid (keyboards) and Rod Learned (drums). The band gained mainstream-commercial success in the early 1980s with singles including " The Metro", " Sex (I'm A...)", " No More Words" and then in the mid 1980s with the chart-topping single " Take My Breath Away" from the 1986 film Top Gun.

Berlin (, ) is the capital of Germany and one of its 16 states. With a population of approximately 3.6 million people, Berlin is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of Rivers Spree and Havel, it is the centre of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about 6 million residents from more than 180 nations. Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.

First documented in the 13th century and situated at the crossing of two important historic trade routes, Berlin became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (14171701), the Kingdom of Prussia (1701–1918), the German Empire (1871–1918), the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) and the Third Reich (1933–1945). Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest municipality in the world. After World War II, the city was divided; East Berlin became the capital of East Germany while West Berlin became a de facto West German exclave, surrounded by the Berlin Wall (1961–1989) and East Germany territory. Following German reunification in 1990, Berlin was once again designated as the capital of united Germany.

Berlin is a world city of culture, politics, media and science. Its economy is based on high-tech firms and the service sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, research facilities, media corporations and convention venues. Berlin serves as a continental hub for air and rail traffic and has a highly complex public transportation network. The metropolis is a popular tourist destination. Significant industries also include IT, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, clean tech, biotechnology, construction and electronics.

Modern Berlin is home to world renowned universities, orchestras, museums, entertainment venues and is host to many sporting events. Its urban setting has made it a sought-after location for international film productions. The city is well known for its festivals, diverse architecture, nightlife, contemporary arts and a high quality of living. Over the last decade Berlin has seen the emergence of a cosmopolitan entrepreneurial scene.

Berlin is the capital of Germany.

Berlin may also refer to:

Berlin is a 1973 album by Lou Reed, his third solo album and the follow-up to Transformer. In 2003, the album was ranked number 344 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time after labelling the album "a disaster" 30 years earlier.

Berlín is a municipality in the Usulután department of El Salvador.

A Berlin (or Berline) carriage was a type of covered four-wheeled travelling carriage with two interior seats. Initially noted for using two chassis rails and having the body suspended from the rails by leather straps, the term continued in use for enclosed formal carriages with two seats after the suspension system changed from leather straps to steel springs.

Berlin is a comic book series by Jason Lutes, published by Black Eye Productions and then Drawn and Quarterly. Planned as a series of 24 magazines (since reduced to 22), then re-released in book form, it describes life in Berlin from 1928 to 1933, during the decline of the Weimar Republic. , the halfway point of the final book in the trilogy had been reached, and the series was reduced to 22 magazines.

Berlin is a 2009 documentary series co-developed by the BBC and the Open University. Written and presented by Matt Frei, the series has three 60-minute episodes, each dealing with a different aspect of the history of Germany's capital city.

Berlin is a musical written by Erik Orton while he was a student at Brigham Young University (BYU) and debuted at the Franklin S. Harris Fine Arts Center in 1999. Orton also composed the music for Berlin.

It later played at Theatre 315 in New York City. In that production the lead female role was played by Nicole Riding.

In 2008 BYU made Berlin into a movie and showed in on BYU-TV. In 2009 it was shown at the LDS Film Festival in Orem, Utah.

Berlin is a German civil parish ( Ortsteil) of the municipality of Seedorf, in the district of Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein. With 500 inhabitants in 2008 it is the most populated settlement of the municipality.

Berlin is a 2009 play by David Hare, in the form of a 55-minute monologue on Berlin and its history. It was first performed in March 2009 at the Royal National Theatre by the author himself, directed by Stephen Daldry.

Berlin is the seventh album by Art Zoyd, released in 1987 through Cryonic Inc..

Berlin is a 2013 EP by Australian singer and musician RY X, released on Infectious Music UK.

This is a list of notable people with the surname Berlin.

• Ben Berlin (1896–1944), Estonian jazz musician
• Boris Berlin (1907–2001), Canadian pianist, music educator, arranger, and composer
• Brent Berlin (born 1936), American anthropologist
• Dash Berlin (born 1982), Dutch DJ
• Eve Berlin or Yves Berlin, bassist for St. Louis rock band Living Things
• Grace Berlin (1897–1982), American ecologist, ornithologist and historian
• Greta Berlin (born 1941), American pro-Palestinian activist
• Irving Berlin (1888–1989), Russian-born American composer
• Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), Russian empire-born British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas
• Isaiah Berlin (rabbi) (1725–1799), Hungary-born German Talmudic critic
• Jeannie Berlin (born 1949), American actor
• Jeff Berlin (born 1953), American musician
• Lillian Berlin, lead singer for St. Louis rock band Living Things
• Lucia Berlin, an American short story writer
• Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1817–1893), Russian rabbi
• Per Berlin (1921–2011), Swedish wrestler
• Saul Berlin (1740–1794), German Jewish scholar and supporter of the enlightenment
• Sven Berlin (1911–1999), British painter, fiction writer, and sculptor
• Violet Berlin (born 1968), Turkish-born English television presenter
• William M. Berlin (1880–1962), American politician

Category:German-language surnames

Berlin is the name of a sculpture on the Tauentzienstraße in western Berlin, the capital of Germany.

First conceived in 1985 and unveiled by the husband-and-wife sculpting team of Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff and Martin Matschinsky in 1987, the sculpture's principal motif, a "broken chain", was meant to symbolize the severed connections between West and East Berlin due to the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Even though the Wall has since been dismantled, the sculpture was bought by the city from Mrs. Matschinsky-Denninghoff to commemorate the unfortunate chapter in German history.

"Berlin" is the 21st episode of the tenth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 231st episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on April 23, 2013. The episode is written by Scott Williams and Gina Lucita Monreal and directed by Terrence O'Hara, and was seen live by 17.33 million viewers.

The episode advances a storyline focusing on the murder of significant secondary characters in the series and the romance between main characters Tony and Ziva. It carries the storyline surrounding the deaths of Ziva's father, Mossad Director Eli David, and Vance's wife, Jackie, who were both killed off in the January episode " Shabbat Shalom". Ziva continues to pursue revenge against Eli's killer, Ilan Bodnar, and Vance continues to endorse her actions despite orders from Homeland Security to rein them in.

"Berlin" introduced the new Mossad director, Orli Elbaz, portrayed by Marina Sirtis. Several actors reprised their roles from previous episodes, including Gabi Coccio as young Ziva, Ben Morrison as young Eli, and Oded Fehr as Ilan Bodnar.

The installment was generally well-received, with the ratings being up from the previous week and critics giving it favorable reviews. The network and producers advertised the reported development of Ziva's relationship with Tony within the episode. Particularly, a scene in which the characters dance together while in Berlin was heavily promoted and received favorable commentary from reviewers.

Berlin can refer to several German 9 cm wavelength microwave radars of WWII. These were developed after the capture of examples of the British cavity magnetron in the H2S radar.

• FuG 224 Berlin A of 1944, a PPI ground mapping radar
• FuG 240 Berlin N1 of 1945, an airborne interception radar for nightfighters
• FuMO 81, a naval development of the FuG 224
• FuMO 83 Berlin I, for U-boats
• FuMO 84 Berlin II, for the type XXI U-boat

"Berlin" is the twenty-first episode of the first season of the American crime drama The Blacklist. The episode premiered in the United States on NBC on May 5, 2014.

Berlin is the third studio album by German rock band Kadavar, released on 21 August 2015 by Nuclear Blast. It was the first album to fully feature new bassist Simon Bouteloup. It featured a cover of Nico's " Reich der Träume" as a bonus track.