Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
- noun Informal A cold, aloof person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An elevated floating mass of ice detached from a glacier at the sea-level.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A huge mass of ocean-floating
ice which has broken off aglacier orice shelf
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
- noun lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Most of the ice in an iceberg is underwater, leaving only the tip of the iceberg visiblea fact that is often alluded to in discussions of subjects in which the most important aspects are hidden from view.
iceberg 2002
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I wanted to get close to them to see what they looked like above and below the water, and I wanted to see for myself if it was true that only one-third of the iceberg is above water.
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A joint Australian-French study has discovered the calving of a large iceberg from the Mertz Glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
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"But even when you see the tip of the iceberg, you have a pretty good idea of what the rest of the iceberg is likely to look like."
GOP candidates surge ahead in fundraising T.W. Farnam 2010
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And in case you get tired of all that ice, the actual heat generated to cool the iceberg is utilised to create hot water lagoons in the nearby cement works quarry.
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Nice try, someone needs a basic understanding of what an iceberg is bobby.
Frozen Sea 2007
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As for other toppings, the coolness of iceberg is preferred over leafier greens, and if you can find red, ripe tomatoes, throw on a few of those, too.
Archive 2007-06-01 Homesick Texan 2007
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As for other toppings, the coolness of iceberg is preferred over leafier greens, and if you can find red, ripe tomatoes, throw on a few of those, too.
The good, the bad and the puffy tacos | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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When I go swimming, spectators reach for their mobiles to call in iceberg alerts … … … … or the whaling fleets to report a new species that needs “researching” … … … …
prude 2007
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Whoever thinks those pics are a eroded iceberg is not very smart.
Frozen Sea 2007
supbob91 commented on the word iceberg
located in Merriam Webtster's Notebook Dictionary pg 39
September 25, 2010
alexz commented on the word iceberg
I wonder if the Sydney Iceberg should count in the 500 words for ice and snow. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/af_database/permalink/the_sydney_iceberg/
February 1, 2013