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Berg vs Zerg - What's the difference?

berg | zerg |

As a proper noun berg

is a place name, notably of:.

As a verb zerg is

(slang|video games|strategy games) to attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences.

As a noun zerg is

(slang|video games) a very large group of units or players.

berg

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Mountain, a large mass or hill.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2004 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Alan Goldfein , title=Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe" , chapter=A Wonderful Drive citation , genre= , publisher=American Editions , isbn=9783000143571 , page=46 , passage=There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ... }}
  • An iceberg.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , date= , year=1997 , month= , first=David J. , last=Rugh , author= , coauthors=Kim E.W. Shelden , title=Spotted Seals, Phoca Largha, in Alaska , volume=59 , issue=1 , page=1 , magazine=Marine Fisheries Review , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=The ice was thin, and only a few areas had bergs large enough to support marine mammals. }}

    References

    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    zerg

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang, video games, strategy games) To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences.
  • * 2002 , "Wolfie", Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.everquest )
    • You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players. They don't have to zerg lower tier encounters just like the lowest tier guilds doesn't have to zerg orc camp 1 in EC. But, at the top end, it's still zerg tactics.
  • * 2003 , "George", Finding groups to mission/hunt/other experience with'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.starwarsgalaxies )
    • The scale and lack of focused content doesn't facilitate this grouping as well as some other games. The good side of that is you don't get the "wonderful" experience of zerging around DF with everyone else waiting for something to spawn.
  • * 2008 , "neithskye", AV after the last changes...'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.warcraft )
    • No one ever did D (or just 3-4 people tried), we just zerged , and we would lose every single AV.

    Synonyms

    *cheese, rush

    Noun

    (zergs)
  • (slang, video games) A very large group of units or players.

    • Synonyms

    *blob