English Dictionary

iceberg

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈaɪsbɜːɡ/

名詞

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(obsolete) The seaward end of a glacier. [18th–19th c.] / A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from 19th c.] / (US, slang) An aloof person. [from 19th c.]

日本語の意味

1. 海上を漂流する巨大な氷の塊、氷山。 / 2. (旧意) 氷河の海側に位置する部分、または氷河から流出した氷の塊。 / 3. (米国スラング) 冷淡で近寄りがたい人物を指す表現。

On the old nautical chart, they labeled the dark promontory plainly as an iceberg, referring to the glacier's seaward end rather than a drifting block.

古い海図では、その暗い突出部が明確に海に面した氷河の末端として記されており、漂流する氷塊ではなく氷河の海向きの終端を指していた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) The seaward end of a glacier. [18th–19th c.]

意味（2）

A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from 19th c.]

The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.

意味（3）

(US, slang) An aloof person. [from 19th c.]

意味（4）

(figuratively, after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water.

He has little to lose: at present he will go down in history, alongside George W. Bush, as a skipper who ignored the looming fiscal iceberg.

icebergs （ plural ）