A berg


[berg or, german berk for 1; burg for 2] /bɛrg or, german bɛrk for 1; bɜrg for 2/
noun
alban
[ahl-bahn,, ahl-bahn] /ɑlˈbɑn,, ˈɑl bɑn/ (show ipa), 1885–1935, austrian composer.
patricia jane (“patty”) 1918–2006, u.s. golfer.
paul, born 1926, u.s. biochemist: n-bel prize 1980.
berg1
/bɜːɡ/
noun
short for iceberg
berg2
/bɜːɡ/
noun
a south african word for mountain
berg
/bɜːɡ; german bɛrk/
noun
alban (maria johannes) (ˈalbaːn). 1885–1935, austrian composer: a pupil of schoenberg. his works include the operas wozzeck (1921) and lulu (1935), a violin concerto (1935), chamber works, and songs
paul. born 1926, us molecular biologist, the first to identify transfer rna (1956). n-bel prize for chemistry 1980
berg
n.

short for iceberg, attested from 1823.

berg (bûrg), paul. born 1926.

american chemist. he shared a 1980 n-bel prize for developing recombinant methods of inserting genes from simple organisms into the genetic material of similar organisms.

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