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сапёр — meaning in English

sapyor

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English meaning

  • miner noun A person who works underground or in a quarry extracting coal, ore, or other minerals.

Senses

сапёр is used for these senses in English:

  • miner An operator of ordnance mines and similar explosives.
  • minesweeper A vehicle, device or person with the purpose of removing explosive mines (landmines or water mines).
  • minesweeper (uncountable, computing, video games) A logic-based computer game in which the player has to discover the position of mines in a rectangular grid, based on numerical hints.
  • sapper A combat engineer; an engineer or a soldier engaged in attacking, destroying, and circumventing or building fortifications, bridges, and roads; a military engineer active in a combat zone.

miner — full definition

  1. noun A person who works underground or in a quarry extracting coal, ore, or other minerals.
  2. noun A person or piece of software that earns cryptocurrency by performing the computations needed to validate transactions.

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