iceberg.
The seaward end of a glacier.
Meaning & usage
The seaward end of a glacier.
A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
An aloof person.
An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show.
A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem.
Do some digging into that politician's past life and associates, and you'll see that the iceberg runs deep.
There's a massive iceberg of increasingly crazy fanfics out there based around those two characters.
A topic that is more convoluted and fractal than it may seem. A list, infographic, or other enumeration of such a topic and its subcomponents, often ordered into groups sorted by obscurity and bizarreness.
Check out the gaming iceberg on this post! There's some really freaky titles there that I've never heard of.
Today we're gonna talk about the Star Wars iceberg.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der. Proto-Germanic *īsą Proto-West Germanic *īs Old English īs Middle English is English ice ▲ Dutch ijsbergpcalq. English iceberg Partial calque of Dutch ijsberg (compound of ijs (“ice”) + berg (“mountain”)), from Middle Dutch ijsberch. First used to describe a glacier as seen at a distance from a ship then used as a term to describe the floating chunks of ice broken off from such glaciers. Cognate to German Eisberg, Danish isbjerg, Norwegian isberg and Swedish isberg. Figurative senses in reference to the fact that only one-tenth of an iceberg is usually visible above water.
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