minecraft

plural minecrafts

1. A warship which lays naval mines.

   In reality, the ship was named (on 3 July 1990) along with several other MCMs to "commemorate the service of World War II minecraft that saw significant service."

   2005, Norman Polmar, Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, →ISBN, page 231

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   Each was marked by lighted dan buoys spaced at one-mile intervals, laid by Fairmile motor launches of the Royal Navy, which followed immediately behind the minecraft.

   1962, Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operation in World War II, page 79

   By the end of May 8 the Japanese had lost one light carrier, a destroyer and several minecrafts. One large carrier had to be retired from the battle and sent home for repairs. The U.S. losses included one destroyer and an oiler, ...

   1971, Bruce Bahrenburg, The Pacific: then and now, page 96

   I had finally joined "the big boys" on a ship other than one called a craft . . . landing crafts or minecrafts. Now, after serving only 71 days, I was being booted off my first warship.

   2005, Bill Pink, The first ten years, page 221

1. video gamesA sandbox video game, released in 2011, in which players explore a three-dimensional world made of blocks and can craft items, build structures, fight mobs to get experience points, enchant items and defeat bosses to earn rewards.

   Sam has beaten the Ender Dragon twice, killed the wither thrice, obtained netherite armor and built an obsidian fort in Minecraft.

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   Chlorine blue, bordered in forest green and looking out onto a Grecian gazebo, the pool was composed of hundreds of ceramic kitchen tiles, like a Minecraft version of C.Z. Guest’s once-upon-a-time world.

   2016 September 13, Vanessa Friedman, “New York Fashion Week Comes to Life With Thom Browne and Proenza Schouler”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020

   If you know a tween, chances are you have bought them something sparkly in the past couple of years – and not only if they are a girl. From Next’s boys’ sequinned T-shirt that flips between Minecraft designs to Paperchase’s rainbow-encrusted notebook[…], these addictively tactile surfaces are everywhere.

   2019 February 25, Dale Berning Sawa, “Why the world has gone wild for reversible sequins”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2020

   London’s mayoralty insists that its new homes must look like old homes – just new, and more of them. So the city has ended up with endless variations of a Georgian terrace that looks like it’s been rendered in Minecraft.

   2022 August 24, India Block, “Like a beige, banal biscuit tin: why London’s new buildings all look the same”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2022

   Synonyms: MC

present singular third person Minecrafts · participle present Minecrafting · participle past Minecrafted · past Minecrafted

1. intransitiveTo play the video game Minecraft.

   First we mine, then we craft. Let’s Minecraft!

   2025 March 30, Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta, A Minecraft Movie, spoken by Steve (Jack Black)

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   In the fullness of time, we can confirm that consumers do generally prefer metaverse platforms named after verbs, or at least strongly imply them: Minecrafting, building blocks and forts in Roblox and Fortnite, VRChat-ing, and so on.

   2023, Wagner James Au, Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For