What's the difference between berg and iceberg?

Berg


Definition:

  • (n.) A large mass or hill, as of ice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lipoprotein(a) was discovered by chance by Berg in 1963; after twenty years of research, the chemical, physical and metabolic characteristics of Lp(a) are now known.
  • (2) April 17, 2013 The third floor isn't doing so well either: Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) Capitol police email Senate offices: Police "are responding to a suspicious envelope on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building."
  • (3) Kerstine Appunn and her boyfriend took three and a half months to land a spacious two-bedroomed flat in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s pricier inner-city districts, where organic cafes populate the pretty, tree-lined streets.
  • (4) A bovine papillomavirus (BPV) type 1-encoded function (M) which is a negative regulator of viral plasmid replication has been described elsewhere (Berg et al.
  • (5) We report here the discovery of a Miocene hominoid from Berg Aukas, Namibia, the first known from the African continent south of equatorial East Africa.
  • (6) Poly(A)+ RNA from turpentine-injected rat liver was converted to cDNA by the method of Okayama-Berg, and about 50,000 transformants were obtained.
  • (7) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
  • (8) Contrary to findings with another enzyme (fraction I), a Bi Uni Uni Bi Ping Pong mechanism (Cleland, 1963a,b,c) corresponding to Berg's (1956) scheme of reaction was eliminated and an ordered Ter Ter mechanism with an A-C-B (standing for ATP, CoA and butyrate respectively) sequence of substrate entry for the overall reaction was established for fraction II.
  • (9) 1980 was his best year for opera: the Cologne company (whose music director, John Pritchard, became a staunch supporter) brought Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Glasgow provided Berg's Wozzeck and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, and the festival itself produced a distinguished world premiere in Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse.
  • (10) The implications of the power calculations for the Berg & Anderson (1973) rotating shaft model are discussed and it is shown that a rotational resistive theory analysis predicts a 5-cross bridge M ring for each flagellum of Spirillum.
  • (11) There's hardly an audience left that supports the war in Afghanistan anyway, and I've never had any sense that Berg was a rightie.
  • (12) (Sadly, there is no very reliable English translation in print, but Dan Crompton's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum gives a fair idea of the flavour, as does an online version by William Berg .)
  • (13) Berg's jibe was "there's no longer anything original or particularly provocative about bowel movements presented as art".
  • (14) Assange – who had been using the conversation to try to find the source of leaks from inside the organisation – suspended him on the spot, and Domscheit-Berg left the group in September.
  • (15) The 5-HT1A site is of particular interest since it is present in high concentrations in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord (Daval, Verge, Basbaum, Bourgoin, and Hamon, 1987) and there are conflicting reports that it may mediate analgesia or hyperalgesia (Berge, Fasmer, Ogren, and Hole, 1985, Zemlan, Kow, and Pfaff, 1983).
  • (16) These findings are a supplement to the burn hematoma of the stomach as described by Berg and Schumann (1985).
  • (17) A set of vectors is described which allow the efficient cloning of full-length cDNAs, using a modification of the method of Okayama and Berg [Mol.
  • (18) It was Berg who had the idea to tie it to the game.
  • (19) A quantitative correlation is found between the statistics of sequence choice and the activity at individual operator sites in both systems, as expected from theoretical considerations [Berg & von Hippel, J.Mol.Biol.
  • (20) Our results are well fitted by the equation (Berg and Purcell, 1977, Biophys.

Iceberg


Definition:

  • (n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lord said the case is "likely to be the tip of the iceberg", leading to other claims against banks over the Libor scandal.
  • (2) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
  • (3) The examples I have quoted are the tip of a very large and very nasty iceberg.
  • (4) It turns out the accounting scandal – which revealed the estimate of first-half profits Tesco gave the City back in August had been artificially inflated by £263m – was just the tip of the iceberg that the previous management team left for him to negotiate.
  • (5) The number of people in England and Wales entering insolvency fell in the first three months of 2012, but debt charities warned the figures represented "the tip of the iceberg" of the UK's debt problems.
  • (6) He said the figures could be “just the tip of the iceberg”, as some tenants could be losing their homes without going through the court process.
  • (7) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
  • (8) The police and the authorities are now aware that trafficked children are being forced to work in cannabis farms but this is really only the tip of the iceberg.
  • (9) Russian athletics’ doping crisis could be the tip of the iceberg for world sport Read more It is understood that senior figures within the IAAF council will push for Russia to be immediately provisionally suspended.
  • (10) Many of the tumours had the characteristics of an iceberg, with considerable extravesical extension making endoscopic management less suitable because of the possibility of massive haemorrhage or recurrence.
  • (11) The oppression of Europe's Romany has lasted thousands of years and the case of Maria is merely the tip of the iceberg.
  • (12) Instead he said the buildup of ice was caused by the aftermath of a collision between a huge iceberg known as B09B and the Mertz Glacier Tongue.
  • (13) Websites such as favors.org or sliversoftime.com, and new kinds of local currency – from Berkshares or brixtonpound.org – are the tip of a giant iceberg of an exchange-based economy that encompasses all the things that people do for each other without money changing hands in conventional ways.
  • (14) A skating star in the twilight of his storied career and another who could go on to be just as impressive combined to put in top performances at the Iceberg Skating Palace on Sunday night and win Russia their first gold medal, to the delight of the watching Vladimir Putin.
  • (15) Now we know, thanks to the findings handed by a whistleblower to the Sunday Times and ARD, the German broadcasting network, that Yegorova was just the tip of a very large iceberg .
  • (16) Dr Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organisation, sees obesity as the tip of the iceberg, pointing towards a catastrophe in which the world has to manage millions suffering from long-term chronic illness.
  • (17) We discuss the concept that circulating cytokines represent the tip of the iceberg.
  • (18) Paul Kenny, the GMB general secretary, said: "Current job losses already announced in the public sector of nearly 150,000 are just the top of the iceberg heading for our services and our economy when the comprehensive spending review finally hits home next month.
  • (19) He also shows off a spectacular electric blue iceberg.
  • (20) The banning of minarets may prove to be the tip of an upcoming iceberg.

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