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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
iceberg
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
iceberg lettuce
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lettuce
▪ He must buy a head of iceberg lettuce, a red pepper, a red onion, and some parsley.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the tip of the iceberg
▪ Investigators say the irregular campaign contributions may be just the tip of the iceberg.
▪ Advertising, however, turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg.
▪ And that could be just the tip of the iceberg as official monitoring picks up only a fraction of illegal pollution.
▪ But the irregular payments for which Stan Flashman's club were punished may only be the tip of the iceberg.
▪ But this was only the tip of the iceberg.
▪ Despite these praiseworthy efforts, only the tip of the iceberg has been noticeably affected.
▪ However, revolutionary technological innovation represents only the tip of the iceberg.
▪ This glitch would prove but the tip of the iceberg.
▪ This is just the tip of the iceberg here, these are ones she got last night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the irregular payments for which Stan Flashman's club were punished may only be the tip of the iceberg.
▪ Despite these praiseworthy efforts, only the tip of the iceberg has been noticeably affected.
▪ For those accustomed to the blandness of iceberg, mesclun is a riot of colors, textures, shapes and flavors.
▪ However, revolutionary technological innovation represents only the tip of the iceberg.
▪ So mounds of snow never shrink, they turn into icebergs.
▪ Unless these matters are faced, there is a hidden iceberg which threatens the good ship cooperation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Iceberg

Iceberg \Ice"berg`\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. iisbierg, Sw. isberg, properly, a mountain of ice. See Ice, and Berg.] A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.

Note: Icebergs are large detached portions of glaciers, which in cold regions often project into the se

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
iceberg

1774, partial loan-translation of Dutch ijsberg, literally "ice mountain," from ijs "ice" (see ice (n.)) + berg "mountain" (see barrow (n.2)). An earlier term was sea-hill (1690s). Phrase tip of the iceberg, in a figurative sense, first recorded 1962. Iceberg lettuce attested from 1893.

Wiktionary
iceberg

n. 1 A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf 2 (context US slang English) An aloof person. 3 (context figuratively after an adjective English) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.

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

  2. lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head; "iceberg is still the most popular lettuce" [syn: crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce]

Wikipedia
Iceberg

An iceberg or ice mountain is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water. It may subsequently become frozen into pack ice (one form of sea ice). As it drifts into shallower waters, it may come into contact with the seabed, a process referred to as seabed gouging by ice.

Iceberg (Cussler novel)

Iceberg is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler published in the United States by Dodd, Mead & Company in 1975. This is the 2nd published book to feature the author’s primary protagonist Dirk Pitt.

Iceberg (Banks novel)

Iceberg is an original novel written by David Banks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was number 18 (of 61) in the Virgin New Adventures range and featured the Cybermen, being a sequel to the serials The Invasion and The Tenth Planet. The events of the novel run concurrently with those of Birthright. Banks as an actor portrayed the Cyber Leader in several Doctor Who serials. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Banks, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #204.

This was the first original Doctor Who novel to feature the Cybermen, and the first New Adventure to feature a recurring foe from the television series.

Iceberg (disambiguation)

Iceberg is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water

Iceberg may also refer to:

Iceberg (wrestler)

Edward Chastain is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Iceberg. Iceberg has competed for several professional wrestling promotions, including Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Wrestling International New Generations (W*ING) in Japan. He later wrestled as part of The Extreme Freebird alliance. He has also held the NWA Anarchy Heavyweight Championship.

Iceberg (G.I. Joe)

Iceberg is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's snow trooper and debuted in 1986.

Iceberg (orca)

Iceberg is the name of an all-white, mature male orca (killer whale) that was filmed and photographed in 2010 off the north-east coast of Russia. He is one of the first adult all-white orca bulls discovered in the wild.

Iceberg (fashion house)

Iceberg is an Italian luxury fashion design house. Founded in 1974 by Silvano Gerani and Giuliana Marchini, the house produces women’s and men's' ' prêt-a-porter'', accessories, fragrances and childrenswear. It is part of the Gilmar Group, founded in 1962. Its headquarters are in San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy, and it has boutiques and outlets in cities across Europe, primarily in Italy but also in London, Paris, Moscow, Kiev, Amsterdam and in Kuwait City and Dubai. The founders' son Paolo Gerani is the creative person and the manager.

Starting as knitwear specialists, Iceberg were an early proponent of the concept of fashionable sportswear, later expanding into leatherwear and jeans. Their products have been worn by Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Lil' Kim and Mischa Barton. In July 2011 the company collection was presented at the catwalk of The Brandery fashion show in Barcelona.

Usage examples of "iceberg".

Would that Heaven might grant success to the operation, for who could contemplate without terror having to brave the severity of the austral winter, and to pass six months under such conditions as ours on a vast iceberg, dragged none could tell whither?

Across the roofs the top floors of several high-rise apartment buildings, their windows flickering with light, loomed through the murky cityscape like the tips of icebergs.

The ship was rolling up and down the big waves, and each time it reached a crest Findhorn saw icebergs scattered over the sea like ships in an armada.

If only Forte could solve the problem of the deadly icebergs, he would ride the wave of booming oil prices to riches beyond the dreams of even a Jennifer Red Cloud.

He knew enough about the man to know that two police cars at the bottom of a funicular was only the tip of the security iceberg.

Maus abhorred tea bags, pressure cookers, canned fruit cocktail, bottled mayonnaise, instant coffee, iceberg lettuce, monosodium glutamate, eggs poached in geometric shapes, New England boiled dinners, and anything resembling a smorgasbord, salad bar, or all-you-can-eat buffet.

The fog mist had also disappeared, and before us lay an iceless channel perhaps ten or fifteen miles wide, with a few icebergs far away to our right, and an intermittent archipelago of smaller ones to the left.

Hookl, probably, since it was so warmcertainly not Jol, where icebergs abounded.

Two days after that, when the twins and Koko were all three playing together on the Big Rock, they saw a huge iceberg float lazily by.

JENNIFER RED CLOUD christened the iceberg Alamo with a bottle of the mixed waters of the Pecos, Rio Grande, Colorado, Brazos, Neches, Nueces, Trinity, and Guadalupe, the principal rivers of the Republic of Texas, which during the drought, now in its fifth year, had dwindled to little more than muddy rivulets.

As chairman of Raynes Oceanic Resources, she had obviously come ready to do battle for the prime contract for the iceberg recovery project.

An iceberg of the Polar seas could not have been more capricious in its terrible sublimity!

That was one of the funny changes that the climate shift had brought: most of the world was hot as hell, now, but there was this cold current sluicing up from Antarctica into the middle of the Pacific, sending icebergs floating toward the tropics.

So he resolved to do better on ultracold Jonah 12, where lakes of liquid methane surrounded by icebergs of frozen ammonia gave the planetoid a fairyland appearance.

Low and yellowed in the gray northward sky, the sun glinted on the summits of a few icebergs.