Icecap vs Iceberg - What's the difference?
icecap | iceberg |
A permanent expanse of ice encompassing a large geographical area, e.g. in Earth's polar zones.
A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf
(US, slang) An aloof person.
(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.
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As nouns the difference between icecap and iceberg
is that icecap is a permanent expanse of ice encompassing a large geographical area, eg in earth's polar zones while iceberg is a huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf.icecap
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Noun
(en noun)- The ocean beneath the arctic icecap hosts many unique organisms adapted to the cold and lack of light.
Anagrams
*iceberg
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(wikipedia iceberg)Noun
(en noun)- The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank .
How Barack Obama can get at least some of his credibility back:
- 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 .