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ICEBERG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head
Example:
iceberg is still the most popular lettuce
Synonyms:
crisphead lettuce; iceberg; iceberg lettuce
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("iceberg" is a kind of...):
lettuce (leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa)
Holonyms ("iceberg" is a part of...):
head lettuce; Lactuca sativa capitata (distinguished by leaves arranged in a dense rosette that develop into a compact ball)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier
Synonyms:
berg; iceberg
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("iceberg" is a kind of...):
floater (an object that floats or is capable of floating)
ice mass (a large mass of ice)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "iceberg"):
growler (a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping)
Context examples:
Throwing these into distance, rose, in the foreground, a head,—a colossal head, inclined towards the iceberg, and resting against it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Based on photographs of RMS Titanic at the shipyard that built it in Belfast, Ireland, he suggested fire by spotting large black streaks in the region struck by the iceberg.
(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)
An iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware split off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf sometime between July 10 and July 12.
(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)
While the crack was growing, scientists had a hard time predicting when the nascent iceberg would break away.
(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)
In this case, the new berg is likely to follow a similar path to the icebergs produced by the collapse of Larsen B: north along the coast of the Peninsula, then northeast into the South Atlantic.
(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)
The calving of the massive new iceberg was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite, and confirmed by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrument on the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) satellite.
(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)
