different between zerg vs erg

English

Etymology

From the game StarCraft (1998), in which the easily mass-produced Zerg units encourage such a strategy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z??(?)?/

Verb

zerg (third-person singular simple present zergs, present participle zerging, simple past and past participle zerged)

1. (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

Translations

Noun

zerg (plural zergs)

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

Synonyms

• blob

Anagrams

• Grez

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)?

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (érgon, “work”).

Noun

erg (plural ergs)

1. The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10^?7 joules.

Derived terms

• foe (unit of energy)

Translations

Etymology 2

From French erg, from Algerian Arabic ?????? (?erg), corresponding to Modern Standard Arabic ?????? (?irq).

Noun

erg (plural ergs or areg)

1. (geomorphology) A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara.

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Noun

erg (plural ergs)

1. (rowing, slang) An ergometer.

Verb

erg (third-person singular simple present ergs, present participle erging, simple past and past participle erged)

1. (rowing, slang, transitive, intransitive) To use an ergometer.

Further reading

• Erg (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EGR, GER, GRE, Ger, Ger., Ger??, Reg, ger, gre, reg

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (érgon).

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (the unit of work or energy)

Etymology 2

From French erg.

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (large desert region)

Further reading

• “erg” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch arch, erch, from Old Dutch *arg, from Proto-Germanic *argaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rx/, /??.r?x/
• Hyphenation: erg
• Rhymes: -?rx

Adjective

erg (comparative erger, superlative ergst)

1. serious, considerable, severe
2. awful, terrible

Inflection

Adverb

erg

1. very

   Het appartement was erg klein.

   The apartment was very small.

2. much; very much

   Ik haat het zo erg.

   I hate it so much.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Etymology 1

From Algerian Arabic ?????? (?erg), corresponding to Modern Standard Arabic ?????? (?irq).

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (desert region)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (érgon, “work”).

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. erg (unit of work done)

Anagrams

• gré

Further reading

• “erg” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Norse

Etymology

Borrowed from an Old Irish word.

Noun

erg n

1. a word of not entirely certain meaning, roughly shepherd's cottage or hill-pasture

Romanian

Etymology

From French erg

Noun

erg m (plural ergi)

1. erg

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From English erg.

Noun

erg m (plural ergs)

1. (geology, geography) erg