conveyor
noun
con·vey·or
kən-ˈvā-ər 
variants
or less commonly conveyer
: 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
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Evidence for this intergalactic conveyor belt was delivered by the Hubble Space Telescope in the form of 500,000 light-year-wide halos of hot ionized oxygen surrounding star-forming galaxies.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Dough exited onto a blue conveyor belt; a sheeter pressed it into a three-foot-wide carpet.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
The pieces move along a vibrating sieve-like conveyor belt, falling into different buckets depending on their size.
—Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Its features include a short conveyor belt that carries skiers and boarders to the spots where the lift will pick them up for a ride of about 2,500 feet.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Dough exited onto a blue conveyor belt; a sheeter pressed it into a three-foot-wide carpet.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
The pieces move along a vibrating sieve-like conveyor belt, falling into different buckets depending on their size.
—Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Its features include a short conveyor belt that carries skiers and boarders to the spots where the lift will pick them up for a ride of about 2,500 feet.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Conveyor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conveyor. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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conveyor
noun
con·vey·or
kən-ˈvā-ər
: a mechanical device for carrying packages or bulk material from place to place (as by an endless moving belt)
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