An icebreaker can carve a channel in the ice fifteen meters wide.
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Icebreaker
//ˈaɪsˌbɹeɪkəɹ//
Synonyms for "icebreaker" (4 found)
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60 translations across 42 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- كَسَّارَةْ جَلِيد noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Armenian
1 entries- սառցահատ noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- buzqıran noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Belarusian
1 entries- ледако́л noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ледоразбивач noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Catalan
1 entries- trencaglaç noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 破冰船 noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Czech
1 entries- ledoborec noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Danish
1 entries- isbryder noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Dutch
2 entries- ijsbreker noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- ijsbreker noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
Esperanto
2 entries- glacirompilo noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- interkono noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
Estonian
1 entries- jäälõhkuja noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Finnish
2 entries- jäänmurtaja noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- kevennys noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
French
1 entries- brise-glace noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Galician
1 entries- crebaxeos noun (ship designed to break through ice)
German
2 entries- Eisbrecher noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- Kennenlernspiel noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
Greek
3 entries- παγοθραυστικό noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- παγοθραυστικό πλοίο noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- παγοθραύστης noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Hebrew
1 entries- שוברת קרח noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Hungarian
4 entries- bemelegítés noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
- bemelegítő noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
- feloldódás noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
- jégtörő noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Ingrian
1 entries- jermakka noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Italian
1 entries- rompighiaccio noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Japanese
1 entries- 砕氷船 noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Korean
1 entries- 쇄빙선 noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Latvian
1 entries- ledlauzis noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ledlaužis noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Äisbriecher noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Macedonian
1 entries- мразокр́шач noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Malay
1 entries- kapal pemecah air batu noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- isbryter noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Polish
2 entries- lodołamacz noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- rzecz rozluźniająca atmosferę noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
Portuguese
1 entries- quebra-gelo noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Romanian
1 entries- spărgător de gheață noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Russian
1 entries- ледоко́л noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ledolomac noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- ледоломац noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Slovak
1 entries- ľadoborec noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Slovene
1 entries- ledolomilec noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Spanish
2 entries- rompehielos noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- tema para romper el hielo noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
Swedish
2 entries- isbrytare noun (ship designed to break through ice)
- isbrytare noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
Thai
2 entries- กิจกรรมละลายพฤติกรรม noun (game, anecdote, or other activity to help introduce people)
- เรือตัดน้ำแข็ง noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Turkish
1 entries- buzkıran noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Ukrainian
1 entries- кригола́м noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tàu phá băng noun (ship designed to break through ice)
Sample sentences
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An icebreaker is breaking a path through the ice.
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The icebreaker has set sail for the north.
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The icebreaker set sail for the north.
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