conveyor
IPA: kʌnvˈeɪɝ
noun
- A person that conveys, transports or delivers.
- Anything that conveys, transports or delivers.
- A mechanical arrangement for transporting material or objects, generally over short or moderate distances, as from one part of a building to another.
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Examples of "conveyor" in Sentences
- The conveyor belt has an average tare weight.
- Is this the roller conveyor or the belt conveyor
- The conveyor inserts the sheets one into the other.
- Shoveling earth onto the conveyor was a horrible job.
- A conveyor extends from the front to the rear of the machine.
- The conveyor assembly rests on the bottom wall of the hopper.
- An interstice is provided between the roller and the conveyor band.
- Conveyors and control systems are provided to mechanize the process.
- The conveyor carries the material to the outlet or discharge of the tube.
- A shaving chain guide is associated with the plane guide in the conveyor.
- At the downstream end of the conveyor there is a stop for halting the products.
- In that direction lay the so-called conveyor belt of trade winds that would, I hoped, whisk me toward Antigua.
- The guy lying down just coming through the scanner on the conveyor is saying, I think I see Al Qaida's plan ....
- A notable decline in the amount of grain being shipped via the Karni conveyor is due to a reduction in Palestinian demand.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.