Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that conveys, especially a mechanical apparatus that transports materials, packages, or items being assembled from one place to another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
conveyer
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mach.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person that
conveys ,transports ordelivers . - noun Anything that conveys, transports or delivers.
- noun A
mechanical arrangement for transportingmaterial orobjects , generally over short or moderate distances, as from one part of a building to another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who conveys (carries or transmits)
- noun a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)
Etymologies
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Examples
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A notable decline in the amount of grain being shipped via the Karni conveyor is due to a reduction in Palestinian demand.
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The sum total of this overturning is often referred to as a conveyor belt as it takes water in one direction along the surface and in the other direction in the deep ocean.
Bill Chameides: Deep Ocean Revisions Do Not Spell Global Warming Rethink 2009
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The guy lying down just coming through the scanner on the conveyor is saying, I think I see Al Qaida's plan ....
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Workers stick the toeless socks upside down onto an assembly conveyor, which is like a miniature version of the ones used to hang clothes at a dry cleaner's.
Alabama Sock Town Suffers as Cotton Soars Timothy W. Martin 2011
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This is because the current rate of ice-melting in Greenland could send so much fresh water into the salty north Atlantic Ocean that it could change the vast ocean circulation pattern sometimes called the conveyor belt.
U.S. Sea Levels Could Rise Significantly Due To Greenland’s Melting Ice | Impact Lab 2009
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In that direction lay the so-called conveyor belt of trade winds that would, I hoped, whisk me toward Antigua.
Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009
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In that direction lay the so-called conveyor belt of trade winds that would, I hoped, whisk me toward Antigua.
Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009
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The conclusion: the so-called conveyor belt -- which carries warm water north from the Tropics as part of a giant circulation that begins in the Arctic -- has slowed by 30 percent in the last 12 years.
Periscope 2007
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Shoveling earth onto the conveyor was a horrible job.
The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007
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Shoveling earth onto the conveyor was a horrible job.
The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007
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