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berg

iceberg

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berg

(bûrg)

A mass of floating or stationary ice; an iceberg.

[Short for iceberg.]

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berg

(bɜːɡ)

(Physical Geography) short for iceberg

berg

(bɜːɡ)

a South African word for mountain

Berg

(bɜːɡ; German bɛrk)

1. (Biography) Alban (Maria Johannes) (ˈalbaːn). 1885–1935, Austrian composer: a pupil of Schoenberg. His works include the operas Wozzeck (1921) and Lulu (1935), a violin concerto (1935), chamber works, and songs

2. (Biography) Paul. born 1926, US molecular biologist, the first to identify transfer RNA (1956). Nobel prize for chemistry 1980

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berg

(bɜrg)

n.

an iceberg.

[1815–25]

Berg

(bɛrg)

n.

Al•ban (ˈɑl bɑn) 1885–1935, Austrian composer.

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Noun	1.	berg - a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier iceberg floater - an object that floats or is capable of floating growler - a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping ice mass - a large mass of ice
	2.	Berg - Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935) Alban Berg

berg

noun (S. African) mountain, peak, mount, height, ben (Scot.), horn, ridge, fell (Brit.), alp, pinnacle, elevation, eminence a wind coming down off the berg

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Go and flirt with Berg as much as you please," she finished quickly.

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Then Schom berg expounded in my hearing to three or four people his theory that Falk was after Captain Her mann's niece, and asserted confidently that nothing would come of it.

And indeed on thinking it over it would have been plausible enough if there hadn't been always the essential falseness of irresponsibility in Schom berg's chatter.

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As its name imports (smeer, fat; berg, to put up), this village was founded in order to afford a place for the blubber of the dutch whale fleet to be tried out, without being taken home to Holland for that purpose.

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The black outline of a boat just shows itself, hauled up on the berg. In an ice-cavern behind the boat the last red embers of a dying fire flicker from time to time over the figures of two men.

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"'Baas, have you ever heard of Suliman's Berg?'--that is, Solomon's Mountains, Sir Henry.

"'Is your master really going to Suliman's Berg, Jim, or are you lying?'

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But, I say, I've been told Berg is going up in a great balloon next Sunday from the Yusupov Garden and will take up passengers at a fee.

I am not intrusive; I used to get on all right with card-sharpers, and I never bored Prince Svirbey, a great personage who is a distant relation of mine, and I could write about Raphael's /Madonna/ in Madam Prilukov's album, and I never left Marfa Petrovna's side for seven years, and I used to stay the night at Viazemsky's house in the Hay Market in the old days, and I may go up in a balloon with Berg, perhaps."

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Bergs Timber AB (STO:BRGB) announced on Thursday the signing of an agreement with AB Fogelfors Bruk to acquire all shares in Fagelfors Hyvleri AB.

Bergs Timber acquires wood pellet producer FA[yen sign]gelfors Hyvleri for SEK48m

The research, (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016JC012513/abstract;jsessionid=5B3A2466125017BA3B5AFBD62333E610.f04t01) published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in April , (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016JC012513/full) includes a simulation of berg movement based on data from 7,000 other bergs.

Scientists Nervously Watch The Huge Iceberg That Broke From The Larsen C Ice Shelf

The Bergs sell all the quince they can grow primarily to Organically Grown, for $2 a pound wholesale, and direct to consumers at the Lane County Farmers' Market for $1.50 per fruit.