Definition of icebreaker in English:

icebreaker

nounˈʌɪsbreɪkəˈaɪsˌbreɪkər

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. 1.1 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:

icebreaker

nounˈaɪsˌbreɪkərˈīsˌbrākər

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. 1.1 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.
2. 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.

单词	icebreaker
释义	Definition of icebreaker in English: icebreaker nounˈʌɪsbreɪkəˈaɪsˌbreɪkər 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: icebreaker nounˈaɪsˌbreɪkərˈīsˌbrākər 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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