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English
A minesweeping ship
A helicopter with a minesweeping sled
The game
Etymology
mine + sweeper
Noun
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
Translations
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
See also