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–noun Oceanography.

iceberg.

[Origin: 1815–25; by shortening

]

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–noun

1.	Al·ban Audio Help [ahl-bahn, ahl-bahn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, 1885–1935, Austrian composer.

2.	Patricia Jane (Patty), 1918–2006, U.S. golfer.

3.	Paul, born 1926, U.S. biochemist: Nobel prize 1980.

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n. A mass of floating or stationary ice; an iceberg.

[Short for iceberg.]

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Berg Audio Help (běrg, běrk) Pronunciation Key
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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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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noun
1.	a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier [syn: iceberg]
2.	Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935)

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Berg

Bar"row\, n. [OE. bergh, AS. beorg, beorh, hill, sepulchral mound; akin to G. berg mountain, Goth. bairgahei hill, hilly country, and perh. to Skr. b?hant high, OIr. brigh mountain. Cf. Berg, Berry a mound, and Borough an incorporated town.]

1. A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.

2. (Mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.

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