Bering
pronunciation
How to pronounce Bering in British English:
UK [ˈbɪərɪŋ, ˈbeər-, ˈbærˈbeɪrɪŋ]
How to pronounce Bering in American English:
US [ˈbɪrɪŋ, ˈbɛr-, ˈbærˈberɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)
Word Origin
- Bering
- strait and sea between Alaska and Siberia, named for Danish explorer Vitus Bering (1681-1741), who worked for Peter the Great and led the first European expedition to sight Alaska, in 1741.
Example
- 1. The chukchi sea lies between alaska and russia just north of the bering strait .
- 2. Based on these and other experiments , bering considers a belief in some form of life apart from that experienced in the body to be the default setting of the human brain .
- 3. The bering glacier , about 10 km from the gulf of alaska , is the largest glacier in north america .
- 4. Russia stretches over two continents ; from the gulf of finland to the bering strait .
- 5. Since the fifth of january , the coast guard icebreaker healy has been escorting a russian tanker through the frozen bering sea toward nome .