Berg

Berg  (brg, brk), Alban 1885-1935.

Austrian composer. A pupil of Arnold Schönberg, he applied an atonal manner to classical forms in works such as the opera Wozzeck (1925) and Violin Concerto (1935).

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Berg  (bûrg), Patricia Jane Known as "Patty." 1918-2006.

American golfer who won 57 professional tournament titles, including 15 major championship titles, during her career.

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Berg, Paul Born 1926.

American chemist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing methods for mapping the structure and function of DNA.

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berg  (bûrg)

n.

A mass of floating or stationary ice; an iceberg.

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[Short for iceberg.]

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Berg [bɜːg (German) bɛrk]

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1. (Biographies / Berg, Alban (Maria Johannes) (1885-1935) M, Austrian, MUSIC: composer) Alban (Maria Johannes) (ˈalbaːn). 1885-1935, Austrian composer: a pupil of Schoenberg. His works include the operas

2. (Biographies / Berg, Paul (1926 M, US, SCIENCE: biologist) Paul. born 1926, US molecular biologist, the first to identify transfer RNA (1956). Nobel prize for chemistry 1980

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berg¹

n

(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) short for iceberg

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berg²

n

a South African word for mountain

Thesaurus

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

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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