berg

[US]/berg/
[UK]/bɛrɡ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.Berg, Austrian composer (1885-1935) who applied the twelve-tone technique to classical forms.
Word Forms
Pluralbergs

Phrases & Collocations

glacial berg

iceberg

floating berg

massive berg

Real-world Examples

Pig pen here, was just the tip of the ice berg.

Source: Lost Girl Season 2

CHRIST BERG top back in the list with the military in 1990 with the dream of joining the U.S.navy seals.

Source: CNN Listening Compilation June 2013

Ocean currents carry the berg south before the September.

Source: CNN 10 Student English April 2017 Compilation

This week, Radz van den Berg wants to know how to drive.

Source: The daily life of a chatty orange.

So you have rock bergs floating in an ocean of magma and eventually you have nothing but rock bergs and the entire surface is covered with this anorthosite.

Source: PBS Fun Science Popularization

Only one glacier on the coast, observed by Prof. Russell, discharges its bergs directly into the open sea, at Icy Cape, opposite Mount St. Elias.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 1)

" Come at once. We have struck a berg. It's a CQD, (an official distress signal) old man, " the Titanic called to another ship, the Carpathia.

Source: BBC Portable English Selected Past Issues

Suddenly the waters around them slowly swelled in broad circles; then quickly upheaved, as if sideways sliding from a submerged berg of ice, swiftly rising to the surface.

Source: Moby-Dick

Their waters are keen ultramarine blue in the deepest parts, lively grass-green toward the shore shallows and around the edges of the small bergs usually floating about in them.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 1)

Walk down any residential street on trash pickup day and you have to thread your way among giant garbage bergs, mounds of residential waste piled along the curb spilling over onto the sidewalk.

Source: Cheddar Scientific Interpretation

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