conveyor
noun
con·vey·or
| \ kən-ˈvā-ər
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variants:
or less commonly conveyer
Definition of conveyor
: one that conveys: such as
a
: a person who transfers property
b
usually conveyor
: a mechanical apparatus for moving articles or bulk material from place to place (as by an endless moving belt or a chain of receptacles)
Examples of conveyor in a Sentence
the conveyor of good news
Recent Examples on the Web
Passengers took off shoes and belts, placed luggage on conveyor belts and stepped into full-body scanners. — Jennifer Brett, ajc, "Atlanta airport goes quiet and still in memory of 9/11," 11 Sep. 2019 The electric motors are built in a separate plant and shuttled to the main factory on a 900-meter conveyor belt. — Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, "Meet Taycan, Porsche’s first all-electric sports car and Tesla’s latest challenger," 4 Sep. 2019 Inspectors in bullet-proof vests picked their way along creaking floorboards, taking inventory of conveyor belts, compressors, and bandsaw blades. — Felipe Fittipaldi, National Geographic, "Inside the faltering fight against illegal Amazon logging," 28 Aug. 2019 Its centerpiece is a trio of conveyor belts arranged to gather rocks into clear plastic casings. — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, "With duct tape and 72 magnets, scientists are looking for a meteor on the bottom of Lake Michigan. Will they find it?," 28 Aug. 2019 The floral conveyor belt may upend our sense of a garden’s seasonality, but the breeders, growers and marketers are confident that homeowners will be drawn to the re-bloomers like bees to nectar. — Adrian Higgins, Houston Chronicle, "Growers set their sights on developing re-bloomers for the garden," 21 Aug. 2019 In Cao Fei's Trade Eden, a labyrinthine series of conveyor belts ferrying unmarked boxes appears in a plaza, distilling global trade into a fantastical display of futility. — Peter Rubin, WIRED, "Apple Puts the AR in 'Art' (and in 'Transparent Sky-Being')," 16 Aug. 2019 At the recycling center, the warehouse is dominated by a pile of material roughly the size of a house, which slowly moves onto a conveyor belt to begin an elaborate, multi-step sorting process. — Piper Mcdaniel, Los Angeles Times, "As California’s recycling industry struggles, companies and consumers are forced to adapt," 14 Aug. 2019 The agency needs to close the highway lanes to bring in heavy construction equipment to complete the work, BART officials said, including positioning a 265-ton crane and staging a conveyor belt to haul materials. — Erin Baldassari, The Mercury News, "Weekend BART work to add 40 minutes to some East Bay trips, close two lanes of Highway 24," 13 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'conveyor.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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