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Minesweeper meaning
A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines). | A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.
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Innocent victims waiting for their Chick-fil-A or bored in class figure there’s no harm in opening up Crossy Road or Minesweeper.
At 16 he joined the Royal Navy and served onboard a minesweeper in the Mediterranean during the war where "he had a most exciting experience with Germany submarines".
However, FreeCell isn't like Minesweeper, a game you can play in Chrome by simply looking up the keyword.
After twenty minutes of Alex Tsimerman Nazi salutes and single-family homeowners (falsely) claiming they are poor I would be taking hits off my mobile dab rig and playing Minesweeper.
Chavez was a member of the crew of the USS Condor, a minesweeper, at the habour on the morning of the attacks.
Nor is it clear for any of us, for that matter.) In the past, they only fantasized about getting to this point together, and that fantasy was programmed into them like Minesweeper in an old PC.
Although the Germans sank a British destroyer and a minesweeper (also damaging another destroyer), they failed to damage any of the convoy's merchant ships.
Casual games as a format existed long before the term was coined and include video games such as Solitaire or Minesweeper which can commonly be found pre-installed with many versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Clemson-class destroyer converted into a high speed minesweeper and re-designated DMS–17 effective November 19, 1940.
It was classified as a minesweeper USS, but instead, mainly used as a patrol craft along the New England coast.
Mines cut free are recorded and collected for research or shot with a deck gun. citation Minesweepers protect themselves with an oropesa or paravane instead of a second minesweeper.
See also Minesweeper (ship) Submarine navigation main Submarines rely on sonar to a greater extent than surface ships as they cannot use radar at depth.
The Hunt-class combine the separate roles of the traditional minesweeper and the active minehunter in one hull.
They were based on a pre-war Oberkommando der Marine concept of vessels which could fill roles such as fast minesweeper, minelayer, merchant escort and anti-submarine vessel.
Veterans groups from around the country had proposed that she should make the tour under sail, but due to the schedule of visits on her itinerary she was towed by the minesweeper USS.
When he was informed by a mysterious radio message of an oncoming German minesweeper convoy, he decided to activate his ship's red and green navigation lights so as to avoid a collision in the dark, making Wilhelm Gustloff easy to spot in the night.
Zeppelins would sometimes land on the sea next to a minesweeper, bring aboard an officer and show him the mines' locations.
Zeppelins would sometimes land on the sea surface next to a minesweeper, bring aboard an officer and show him the lay of the mines.