English[edit]
A minesweeping ship
A helicopter with a minesweeping sled
The game
Etymology[edit]
mine + sweeper
minesweeper (countable and uncountable, plural minesweepers)
- A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines).
- (uncountable, computing, video games) A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
vehicle, device or person for the removal of mines
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: caçamines (ca) m, dragamines (ca) m., pescamines m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 掃雷艦／扫雷舰 (zh) (sǎoléijiàn)
- Czech: minolovka (cs) f (a ship)
- Danish: minestryger c
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: miinaharava (fi) (device), miinanraivaaja (fi) (vehicle or person)
- French: démineur (fr) m, dragueur de mines m
- Georgian: ტრალერი (ṭraleri)
- German: Minenabwehrfahrzeug n, Minenräumboot (de) n
- Greek: ναρκαλιευτής (el) m (narkalieftís)
- Hungarian: aknaszedő/aknamentesítő/aknakutató hajó, aknászhajó
- Icelandic: sprengjuleit (2)
- Italian: sminatore (it) m, dragamine (it) m
- Japanese: 掃海艇 (ja) (そうかいてい, sōkaitei)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: minesveipar (1, 2)
- Polish: saper (pl) m (person)
- Romanian: dragor (ro) n, deminor m
- Russian: ми́нный трал, тра́льщик m (mínnyj tral, trálʹščik) (vehicle), сапёр (ru) m (sapjór) (person)
- Spanish: dragaminas m, barreminas m, buscaminas m
- Swedish: minsvepare c, minröjare c
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
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