icebreaker
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈaɪsˌbreɪkər/
- Specialized
:
rompehielos
- The icebreaker navigated through thick ice, ensuring that the shipping lane remained open.
- icebreaker fleet
It's a little over two weeks on a Russian icebreaker with Chris Hadfield's team.
- It's a little over two weeks on a Russian icebreaker with Chris Hadfield's team.
Examples
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During the summer of 2000, the authors traveled as part of a team of lecturers aboard a Russian nuclear icebreaker to the North Pole.
Academic text (2000) -
The U.S. Senate is considering spending $100 million to build two new polar icebreakers and update three aging ones.
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The U.S. Government is not going... to let a Russian icebreaker come and save the day.
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Sir, the press has been all over us about some Soviet icebreaker.
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So he found a Soviet nuclear powered icebreaker which could do exactly that.
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The only available icebreaker within navigable distance...
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And even China operates one icebreaker, despite its lack of Arctic waters.
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Russia, by comparison, has a fleet of 18 icebreakers.
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U-M graduate student Kevin Bakker is in a laboratory aboard the icebreaker Oden.
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For instance, in a well-known 1985 incident, a Coast Guard icebreaker navigated through the Northwest Passage, which the United States claims is an international strait, without seeking Canadian permission.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
A ship with an extra strong front that breaks ice to open a path
Compounds
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Etymology
Icebreaker was first used for a ship that could break ice by pushing and cracking the frozen sea to make a path for other ships. That's why the name is literal: an icebreaker 'breaks' the ice so ships can move.