Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ship equipped for detecting, destroying, removing, or neutralizing explosive marine mines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A boat designed for the purpose of detecting and disposing of marine mines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive
mines (landmines or water mines). - noun uncountable A
logic -basedcomputer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines
Etymologies
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Examples
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William respected his father for having commanded a minesweeper in peacetime.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Boing Boing 2009
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In 1942, at the age of only 21, he was a radio operator on a small minesweeper on one of the ill-fated arctic convoys and was on one of the few ships to make it through to Archangel.
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Bartleby minimize the window on his PC containing his minesweeper game—which he was, in fact, just simply putting the screws to, to put it mildly—right as I gave a quick courtesy knock and, subsequently, walked through the CEO's open office door.
Things You Can Do, Some Can't Be Done Joseph M. Owens 2011
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William respected his father for having commanded a minesweeper in peacetime.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Get really good at spider solitaire, minesweeper and micro$oft hearts. orlo
What You Should Do When Your Internet’s Out | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I waited about two days, on the beach and in the water, for evacuation and was picked up by a navy rowing boat and taken to HMS Skipjack, a navy minesweeper, which delivered us across the channel and landed us at Folkestone.
Robert Cunliffe 2010
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At the time, he was a Boatswain 3rd Class assigned to a minesweeper called the Exultant.
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"We can be sure that these are the British ships that went down during the war of independence," said Võrk, who authorised the use of new sonar equipment by the Estonian minesweeper Ugandi.
British warships sunk 90 years ago found off Estonian coast 2010
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Sonar searches by an Estonian minesweeper have located the remains of the cruiser HMS Cassandra and two Flower Class sloops, HMS Myrtle and HMS Gentian, in deep water near the island of Saaremaa.
British warships sunk 90 years ago found off Estonian coast 2010
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