English-Portuguese translations for icebreaker

• quebra-gelo
  Tomou-se também em atenção uma particularidade muito nossa, os quebra-gelos.Due note has also been taken of our speciality, icebreakers.
  É um absurdo um quebra-gelo ser mais rápido do que um comboio. Na realidade, os quebra-gelos finlandeses não são muito lentos. The fact that icebreakers travel more quickly than goods trains is absurd (not that Finnish icebreakers are particularly slow!).
  Para além dos submarinos, também o combustível usado proveniente de inúmeros quebra-gelos movidos a energia nuclear exacerba o risco de ameaça ecológica. Besides the submarines, spent fuel from a number of nuclear-powered icebreakers also adds to the ecological risk.

Definition of icebreaker

• A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas
• A game, activity, humorous anecdote, etc., designed to relax a group of people to help them get to know each other
• A lively song and dance routine at the start of a musical

Examples

• The steel hulls of ice-breakers are much thicker than those of standard vessels
• The new college hallmates were awkward with each other at first, but after a game of charades as an icebreaker, they were laughing like old friends.

Related words

• servicebransch
• specialist/konsult inom servicebranchen