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iceberg [ˈaɪsbɜːg] n 1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a large mass of ice floating in the sea, esp a mass that has broken off a polar glacier tip of the iceberg the small visible part of something, esp a problem or difficulty, that is much larger 3. Slang chiefly US a person considered to have a cold or reserved manner [probably part translation of Middle Dutch ijsberg ice mountain; compare Norwegian isberg]
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Translations iceberg [ˈaɪsbɜːg] iceberg [ˈaɪsbɜːrg] n → iceberg m the tip of the iceberg → la partie émergée de l'iceberg iceberg lettuce n → laitue f iceberg iceberg [ˈaɪsbɜːg] n → iceberg m inv this is only the tip of the iceberg (fig) → questa è solo la punta dell'iceberg iceberg [ˈaɪsbɜːg] n → iceberg m inv this is only the tip of the iceberg (fig) → questa è solo la punta dell'iceberg How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Nearer still, following the drift, an iceberg rears its crags and pinnacles to the sky; here, glittering in the moonbeams; there, looming dim and ghost-like in the ashy light. True, other fish are found exceedingly brisk in those Hyperborean waters; but these, be it observed, are your cold-blooded, lungless fish, whose very bellies are refrigerators; creatures, that warm themselves under the lee of an iceberg, as a traveller in winter would bask before an inn fire; whereas, like man, the whale has lungs and warm blood. Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas. |
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