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Conveyer

Definition: Conveyer

Conveyer

Noun

1. A person who conveys (carries or transmits); "the conveyer of good tidings".

2. A moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Conveyer

Synonyms: conveyer belt (n), conveyor (n), conveyor belt (n), transporter (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Conveyer

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Carrier

Noun: carrier, porter, bearer, tranter, conveyer; cargador; express, expressman; stevedore, coolie; conductor, locomotive, motor.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Conveyer

English words defined with "conveyer": conveyorHander. (references)
Specialty definitions using "conveyer": Old Hossstripping roll. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Conveyer

Illustrations:
Conveyer

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Photo Album: Conveyer

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Laborers picking tomatoes, and placing them on conveyer belt. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Conveyer bringing the molds. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shoveling coal into a conveyer loader, Old Ben number eight. West Frankfort, Illinois (see 26980-D). Credit: Library of Congress.

Removing packaged rice from conveyer. Ricemill, Abbeville, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Conveyer

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

CPPIA now has more than 700 members nationwide making plastic films, plates, sheets, pipes, rods, tape, flame-retardant plastic conveyer belts and other laminated or composite plastic products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Conveyer

SpeakerPhrase(s)

John Hartmann

Nothing specific. I'm just saying, it's quite obvious we're all in the conveyer belt to the corporate abattoir.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Conveyer

"Conveyer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Conveyer" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Conveyer

Expressions using "conveyer": conveyer belt conveyer screw. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Conveyer

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

conveyer

47

conveyer belt

16

control conveyer switch

4

conveyer system

3

conveyer vibration

3

conveyer roll

2

conveyer in licensed yorkshire

2

conveyer hay

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Conveyer

Language Translations for "conveyer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

transportues (carrier, tramp, transporter), transportier, konvejer. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏المفرغ (discharger), ‏الناقلة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

транспортьор (transporter), конвейер (line, transporter). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

动机 (Conveyor). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dopravce (carrier, forwarder, haulier). (various references)

   

Danish

  

transportør til vandret transport (conveyor, horizontal conveyor). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

transporteur (carrier, transporter), transportband (band conveyor, belt conveyor, belt type conveyor, continuous system, conveyor, conveyor belt, horizontal conveyor, moving way, moving-band conveyor, moving-belt conveyor, treadmill), horizontale transporteur (conveyor, horizontal conveyor), horizontale transportband (conveyor, horizontal conveyor). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

ناقل(conveyor), حامل (Bearer, Carrier, Conveyor, Porter, Stave, Vehicle). (various references)

   

French

  

convoyeur (conveyor). (various references)

   

German

  

Horizontalförderer (conveyor, horizontal conveyor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεταφέρων, μεταφορέασ (carrier, courier, remover, transporter), οριζόντιος μεταφορέας (conveyor, horizontal conveyor). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מעביר (carrier, conductor, transferor, transmitter). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kézbesítõ (letter carrier). (various references)

   

Italian

  

convogliatore (carrier, chain and slat conveyor, conveyor, horizontal conveyor), trasportatore orizzontale (conveyor, horizontal conveyor). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ベリリウ 銅 (bel canto, Belgium, bell, Bellcore, belt conveyer, Belt for western clothes, berserk, beryllium copper, mountain, Versailles, weltschmerz). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ベルトコンベヤー (belt conveyer). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

컨 이어 (Conveyor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onveyercay

   

Portuguese

  

transportador (aeroplane carrier, carrying, hauler, haulier, transporter). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

conveier (carrier dog, conveyance). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

конвейер (conveyor, transporter). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

konvejer (conveyor). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

transportador horizontal (conveyor, horizontal conveyor), transmidor. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

transportband (conveyor). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

taşıyıcı (bearer, carrier, contact, conveyor, germ carrier, haulier, mover, transporter, vector, vehicle), nakledici (conveyor, transmitter), konveyör (conveyor). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

рознощик (badger, butcher, cadger, conveyor, packman, peddler, pedlar), транспортер (conveyor, forwarder, loader), конве"р (conveyor, line), перевізник (carrier, conveyor, ferryman, sandpiper). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người đem (bearer). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Conveyer

Derivations

Words beginning with "conveyer": conveyers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Conveyer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conveey. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Conveyer"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "conveyer" (pronounced kunvā"er)
6k u n v ā" erconveyor.
3-v ā" erpurveyor, surveyor.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Conveyer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reconvey.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-o-r-v-y"

-2 letters: convey, corvee, encore, venery.

-3 letters: coney, corny, coven, cover, covey, coyer, crone, crony, envoy, every, nerve, nervy, never, onery, recon, roven, veery.

-4 letters: cere, cero, cone, cony, core, corn, cory, cove, eery, envy, erne, even, ever, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre, neve, once, oven, over, oyer, rove, veer, very, yore.

-5 letters: cee, con, cor, coy.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-o-r-v-y"
 

+1 letter: conveyers, reconveys.

 

+2 letters: conversely, reconveyed.

 

+3 letters: convergency, conveyancer, conveyorise, conveyorize, reconveying.

 

+4 letters: conveyancers, conveyorised, conveyorises, conveyorized, conveyorizes, reconveyance, uncoercively.

 

+5 letters: reconveyances.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Spoken
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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