ICEBERG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iceberg mean? 

• ICEBERG (noun)
  The noun ICEBERG has 2 senses:

1. a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

2. lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head

  Familiarity information: ICEBERG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICEBERG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

berg; iceberg

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

crisphead lettuce; iceberg; iceberg lettuce

Context example:

iceberg is still the most popular lettuce

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)

 Context examples 

The U.S. National Ice Center will monitor the trajectory of the new iceberg, which is likely to be named A-68.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)

Molony claims This isn't a simple story of colliding with an iceberg and sinking.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Edge of the ice sheet where melting and calving of icebergs occurs.

(Ice sheet margin, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Clear as crystal, motionless as a sheet of glass, green as the edge of an iceberg, it stretched in front of us under its leafy archway, every stroke of our paddles sending a thousand ripples across its shining surface.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The researchers found cavities that undercut the base of these leading edges that can destabilize the ice front and enhance iceberg calving, the process where parts of the glacier break off and float away.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)

The currents around Antarctica generally dictate the path that the icebergs follow.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)

He is good and great, but severe; and, for me, cold as an iceberg.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The disaster has long been thought down to a collision with an iceberg.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

In 2014, a crack that had been slowly growing into the ice shelf for decades suddenly started to spread northwards, creating the nascent iceberg.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)