Crossword clues for minefield
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
minefield \minefield\ n.
(Mil.) a region in which explosive mines[4] have been placed, especially a region on land.
Hence: (Fig.) A situation in which a simple mistake can have disastrous consequences; a touchy or dangerous situation requiring great caution; as, the candidate threaded his way skillfully through a minefield of loaded questions from the audience.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An area in which land mines have been laid. 2 (context by extension English) A dangerous situation. 3 (context cricket English) A pitch that has dried out and crumbled and on which the ball is bouncing and spinning unpredictably.
WordNet
n. a region in which explosives mines have been placed
Wikipedia
"Minefield" is the twenty-ninth episode (production #203) of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the third episode of the second season.
A minefield is an area covered with land mines.
Minefield may also refer to:
- "Minefield" (Star Trek: Enterprise), the 29th episode of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise
- Minefield, the branding used for trunk builds of Mozilla Firefox
- Minefield, the massively multiplayer online version of Minesweeper.
Usage examples of "minefield".
They set a small minefield and placed a noisemaker within it that sounds exactly like a Tango schnorkeling her diesels.
Tiny actinic spangles of light showed where these had begun to encounter the minefields she had sown into the gravitational subcurrents of the cluster days before the freighters arrived.
He could feel his way through the psyches of kidnappers as through a minefield, but preferred to have me deal with the families of the victims.
And here I am, destined to spend the best years of my life laying out tank traps, clearing minefields and blowing things up.
It made Tom feel that anything was possible, and that they were safe from all the minefields of being prosecuted over VAT or any other kind of tax.
This was clearly demonstrated by the way in which the fences that bordered on the city and suburbs were little more than tokens, without watchtowers, patrols, or minefields, while on the other side, where the badlands bordered on the remaining farm country, there was a wall of steel to rival any European frontier.
They could quickly build roads and bridges, clear or lay minefields, and erect formidable defensive fortifications.
Destroying the antigraviton beam and preventing the Dominion from pulling down the minefield was a simple gesture upon which the lives of uncounted billions of people rested, and Odo was casting off its importance as a general nothing.
Instantly he said, "Destroying the antigraviton beam to prevent the Dominion from taking down the minefield.
Pressure to bring down the minefield had finally become inexorable, and this coincided, luckily or unluckily, with Damar's idea to use the station's deflectors as an antigraviton weapon against the mines.
Destroying the antigraviton beam and preventingthe Dominion from pulling down the minefield wasa simple gesture upon which the lives of uncountedbillions of people rested, and Odo was casting off itsimportance as a general nothing.
Instantly he said, "Destroying the antigravitonbeam to prevent the Dominion from taking downthe minefield.
Pressure to bring down the minefield hadfinally become inexorable, and this coincided, luck-ily or unluckily, with Damar's idea to use thestation's deflectors as an antigraviton weaponagainst the mines.
I gave her an extra instant, and Benni saved herself from a reprimand by stepping her squad back so carefully they might have been moving through a minefield.
Following the shock of Hong Kong’s reversion to mainland China, Wen’s increasing frailty must have had the many branches of the Tang family scrambling and clawing to see who would lead the clan through the profitable minefields of the twenty-first century.