Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A vehicle, device, or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or naval mines).

  2. A vehicle, device, or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or naval mines).

    (countable, often, specifically, uncountable)A ship specializing in removing naval mines.

    Minenabwehrfahrzeug, Minenräumboot

    ми́нный трал, тра́льщикmínnyj tral, trálʹščik, сапёрsapjór

    ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines

  3. (uncountable)Any of various logic-based computer games in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.

    Minesweeper

    сапёрsapjór

Examples

4 sentences
  1. The objective of Minesweeper is to clear the minefield without detonating the mines.

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  2. The goal of Minesweeper is to uncover all safe squares without detonating any mines.

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  3. Do you play Minesweeper?

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  4. Are you playing Minesweeper?

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
vehicle, device, or person for the removal of mines:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
vehicle, device, or person for the removal of mines:
video game:

Origin

From mine + sweeper.

From mine + sweeper.

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Forms

plural: minesweepers
Singularminesweeper
Pluralminesweepers

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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