iceberg

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  1. noun A massive floating body of ice broken away from a glacier. Only about 10 percent of its mass is above the surface of the water.
  2. noun Informal A cold, aloof person.

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  • There is an Al Qaeda iceberg which is on the move from the Pashtun tribal belt of Pakistan to areas outside as seen from the explosions outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad —  rediff.com
  • Like an iceberg, the Royal Ontario Museum displays only a minuscule portion of its collection to the public. —  Thestar.com - Home Page
  • Like on one occasion I was visualizing an iceberg, and what she got was a huge wave. —  Daily News-Record
  • My fear of the future mainly revolves around this idiot returning home, and I don't mean to Fife and retirement, for here's a man at the helm of the HMS Britannia and it's full steam ahead for the iceberg: —  A Tangled Web
  • Whispers at the conference made it clear that that is the tip of the iceberg, and we could see large-scale installations during 2002 that dwarf current deployment. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
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  1. Partial translation of Dutch ijsberg, from Middle Dutch ijsbergh : ijs, ice + bergh, mountain; see bhergh-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Dutch ijsberg = German eisberg; adapted from Scandinavian, from Swedish Norwegian isberg = Danish isbjerg, literally ‘ice-hill': see ice and berg (berg in English is due to the compound ice-berg).
 

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