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Definition of icebreaker in English: icebreakernounˈʌɪsbreɪkəˈaɪsˌbreɪkər 1A ship designed for breaking a channel through ice. Example sentencesExamples - There was a Russian ice-breaker tour, with tickets costing around $40,000.
- Later this month he will fly to Uruguay, and from there catch an ice-breaker ship to the base.
- Hovercrafts or high-speed ice-breakers could replace the boats in the winter, says Krantz.
- Land, ocean, and space-based infrastructure, including research stations, aircraft, ice-breakers, and dedicated satellites, could be centrally coordinated.
- From 1947 to 1951 he directed scientific operations aboard submarines and ice-breakers during five cruises to the northern Aleutian platform and Beaufort Sea.
- Celebrity Cruises travels to Antarctica with the polar ice-breaker Kapitan Khlebnikov, a refitted 1980's Russian polar research vessel.
- It is named Arctic because it is an ice-breaker used in Arctic seas.
- An ice-breaker is to leave from South Africa Sunday.
- Data collection took place primarily on an opportunistic basis, typically onboard ice-breakers, naval tankers, cargo ships and other vessels.
- If its pressurized floes are thick and unbroken, it can stop an ice-breaker dead or slice the steel hull of a lesser ship like a can opener.
- 1.1 A thing that serves to relieve inhibitions or tension between people.
Example sentencesExamples - He even found that his fold of 14 Highland cattle acted as a social ice-breaker when he moved into the community.
- It's a good ice-breaker with people; we talk to them, and it's a little more personable.
- People come up to me all of the time and as a conversation ice-breaker often say, ‘You're the food editor.’
- As an ice-breaker, each person went to a map and identified her or his home country.
- The visit could have been a real ice-breaker for tense cross-strait relations.
- ‘This can be used as an excellent ice-breaker or a way to work out whether you should go on that second date,’ he said.
- The mock editorial board worked well at Columbia as an ice-breaker to start the day.
- Structured activities might include ice-breakers, trust-building exercises, and team games.
- For a start, they're the world's best ice-breaker for when you meet new people.
- Building self-respect and self-esteem in campers can commence with good ice-breakers such as introductory name games.
- ‘Hey, I read that when I was 13,’ I say, always the tactful ice-breaker.
- Also, team-building activities can be much different than ice-breakers - which do you really want?
- That was the ice-breaker - the entire restaurant erupted, bursting at its seams with laughter.
- So if you want physical discomfort as a social ice-breaker, go for it!
- There's no two ways about it, in such a situation, live music is an excellent ice-breaker!
- He'd been a footballer too, with Orient, and that was a great ice-breaker for me.
- Now, discussing one's weight with a workmate might seem like a strange ice-breaker, but it works!
- It's a nice ice-breaker when I talk to clients that I haven't been in touch with for a month or so.
- Enquiries about one's employment are the invariable ice-breakers in these suburbs.
- And humour is a real ice-breaker - if you can make someone laugh, they'll be more likely to want to contact you.
Definition of icebreaker in US English: icebreakernounˈaɪsˌbreɪkərˈīsˌbrākər 1A ship designed for breaking a channel through ice. Example sentencesExamples - If its pressurized floes are thick and unbroken, it can stop an ice-breaker dead or slice the steel hull of a lesser ship like a can opener.
- Data collection took place primarily on an opportunistic basis, typically onboard ice-breakers, naval tankers, cargo ships and other vessels.
- It is named Arctic because it is an ice-breaker used in Arctic seas.
- Land, ocean, and space-based infrastructure, including research stations, aircraft, ice-breakers, and dedicated satellites, could be centrally coordinated.
- An ice-breaker is to leave from South Africa Sunday.
- Hovercrafts or high-speed ice-breakers could replace the boats in the winter, says Krantz.
- There was a Russian ice-breaker tour, with tickets costing around $40,000.
- Celebrity Cruises travels to Antarctica with the polar ice-breaker Kapitan Khlebnikov, a refitted 1980's Russian polar research vessel.
- Later this month he will fly to Uruguay, and from there catch an ice-breaker ship to the base.
- From 1947 to 1951 he directed scientific operations aboard submarines and ice-breakers during five cruises to the northern Aleutian platform and Beaufort Sea.
- 1.1 A thing that serves to relieve inhibitions or tension between people, or start a conversation.
Example sentencesExamples - Structured activities might include ice-breakers, trust-building exercises, and team games.
- So if you want physical discomfort as a social ice-breaker, go for it!
- Now, discussing one's weight with a workmate might seem like a strange ice-breaker, but it works!
- There's no two ways about it, in such a situation, live music is an excellent ice-breaker!
- The mock editorial board worked well at Columbia as an ice-breaker to start the day.
- Enquiries about one's employment are the invariable ice-breakers in these suburbs.
- People come up to me all of the time and as a conversation ice-breaker often say, ‘You're the food editor.’
- As an ice-breaker, each person went to a map and identified her or his home country.
- He'd been a footballer too, with Orient, and that was a great ice-breaker for me.
- Building self-respect and self-esteem in campers can commence with good ice-breakers such as introductory name games.
- He even found that his fold of 14 Highland cattle acted as a social ice-breaker when he moved into the community.
- For a start, they're the world's best ice-breaker for when you meet new people.
- And humour is a real ice-breaker - if you can make someone laugh, they'll be more likely to want to contact you.
- It's a nice ice-breaker when I talk to clients that I haven't been in touch with for a month or so.
- Also, team-building activities can be much different than ice-breakers - which do you really want?
- ‘Hey, I read that when I was 13,’ I say, always the tactful ice-breaker.
- It's a good ice-breaker with people; we talk to them, and it's a little more personable.
- ‘This can be used as an excellent ice-breaker or a way to work out whether you should go on that second date,’ he said.
- That was the ice-breaker - the entire restaurant erupted, bursting at its seams with laughter.
- The visit could have been a real ice-breaker for tense cross-strait relations.
- 1.2 A thing that breaks up moving ice so as to lessen its impact, especially a structure protecting the upstream end of a bridge pier.
Example sentencesExamples - The team will use three icebreakers as it tries to take cores from the Lomonosov Ridge between Siberia and Greenland.
- At that time the Antarctic Programme was stationed in Lyttelton and he could watch the US Coastguard vessels, icebreakers and helicopters.
- The Yenisey binds the territory together on its 1,800-mile passage north to the Kara Sea, where icebreakers help keep open the northern shipping route.
- A new National Centre of Excellence was established in 2003, and the icebreaker Amundsen was refitted for polar science.
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