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Definition: Conveyor |
ConveyorNoun1. 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. |
Date "conveyor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | System for the mechanised conveyance of hoisted carcases. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A device, typically operating on the endless-chain principle, for carrying loose pieces. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A mechanical contrivance generally electrically driven, which extends from a receiving point to a discharge point and conveys, transports, or transfers material between those points. b. The apparatus, belt, chain, or shaker, which, in conveyor mining, moves coal from the rooms and entries to a discharge point or to the surface. "Mother conveyors" are the conveyors that receive the coal from several unit conveyors in rooms or entries. See also:underground mine conveyor; transport; armored flexible conveyor; gate conveyor; shaker conveyor;trunk conveyor. (references) |
Transportation | Circulatory conveyor system to which baggage is delivered in arrival terminal. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A type of passenger-carrying device on which passengers stand or walk, and in which the passenger-carrying surface remains parallel to its direction of motion and is uninterrupted. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ConveyorSynonyms: conveyer (n), conveyer belt (n), conveyor belt (n), transporter (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Conveyor |
| English words defined with "conveyor": drop ♦ leave out ♦ miss ♦ neglect ♦ omit, overleap, overlook ♦ pretermit. (references) |
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Clever | Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Trunk Conveyor (1952) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tomatoes on conveyor. Credit: USDA. |  | Caption: Automatic Bagging Machine and Car Loading Conveyor; New Village, NJ; Unknown Date; {10.220/552} (jpg). |
 | Caption: New Jersey & Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, Plant, Interior, Bucket Conveyor; Edison, NJ; Unknown Date; {26.111/77} (jpg). |  | After the ship conveyor had been introduced, came belts on the wharf. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Incoming trunk line conveyor. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Overhead conveyor. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Containers for rice in conveyor, state mill, Abbeville, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dumping peanuts into conveyor hopper. Peanut-shelling plant. Comanche, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hawthorn Power Plant, Kansas City Light and Power, Kansas City, Missouri. Conveyor tower, from east. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Poughkeepsie New Yorker Building, Poughkeepsie, New York. Mailing conveyor. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Business | Local manufacturing of materials handling equipment is limited to conveyor belts, carts and some forklifts. (references) | |
Although there is local production of conveyor belts, carts and some fork lifts, much of this equipment consists of locally made metal structures fitted with imported electronic and mechanical systems. (references) | ||
Satellite aided CNS and ATM systems (which are in line with India's commitment to ICAO and will be achieved in Indian airspace by 2005). Ancillary products such as conveyor systems, elevators, aerobridges, and EDI systems. (references) | ||
Economic History | Uae | UAE's east coast port, Fujairah plans to expand its terminal by 4000 square meters, requiring baggage conveyor belts, flight information display monitors, catering equipment, and kitchen and restaurant equipment. (references) |
Brazil | In addition, the modernization and privatization of Brazilian airports and ports are requiring purchases in the material-handling sector such as cranes, conveyor belt systems, and loading/unloading docking equipment. (references) | |
Egypt | Most promising subsectors: Radars, communication equipment, landing equipment, airport lighting, computers equipment, screens, conveyor belts, fork lifts, fire fighting vehicles, telephone switches, fiber-optic cables and copper telephone cables. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Conveyor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Conveyor" is used about 117 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 117 | 29,823 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Nippon Conveyor Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "conveyor": band conveyor ♦ belt conveyor ♦ belt type conveyor ♦ continuous conveyor ♦ conveyor band ♦ conveyor belt ♦ conveyor system ♦ endless conveyor ♦ pedestrian conveyor ♦ roller conveyor ♦ vibratory conveyor. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "conveyor": conveyor-belt, conveyor-belts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "conveyor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shirit transportieri (conveyor belt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حزام النقل (conveyor belt), حزام التوصيل (conveyor belt, speedwalk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 动机 (Conveyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | transportér (transporter), dopravník. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | conveyor, transportbånd (band conveyor, belt conveyor, carrier, chain and slat conveyor, conveyor belt, grasshopper, moving-band conveyor, moving-belt conveyor), transportanlæg, transportør til vandret transport (conveyer, horizontal conveyor), transportør (carrier, elevating web, open-web elevator, transport operator), rullende fortov (moving pavement, moving sidewalk, moving walkway, pedestrian conveyor, speedwalk, travelator), overfoeringsarm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | caroussel (carousel), transportinrichting, transporteur (carrier, transporter), transportband (band conveyor, belt conveyor, belt type conveyor, continuous system, conveyer, conveyor belt, horizontal conveyor, moving way, moving-band conveyor, moving-belt conveyor, treadmill), roltrottoir (moving pavement, moving sidewalk, moving walkway, pedestrian conveyor, speedwalk, travelator), loopband (moving pavement, moving ramp, moving sidewalk, moving walkway, pedestrian conveyor, speedwalk, travelator), horizontale transporteur (conveyer, horizontal conveyor), horizontale transportband (conveyer, horizontal conveyor), bijrijder, bewegend trottoir (moving pavement, moving sidewalk, moving walkway, pedestrian conveyor, speedwalk, travelator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناقل(conveyer), حامل (Bearer, Carrier, Conveyer, Porter, Stave, Vehicle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | siirrin, liukukäytävä (moving pavement, moving sidewalk, moving walkway, pedestrian conveyor, speedwalk, travelator), kuljetin (carriage, cat wagon, vector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | convoyeur (conveyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Förderer (catalyzer, catalyzers, patron, promoter, sponsor, sponsors), Förderanlage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυλιόμενος διάδρομος (moving pavement, moving sidewalk, moving walkway, pedestrian conveyor, speedwalk, travelator), καρουζέλ (carousel), μετακομιστήσ (transporter, truckman), μεταφορέας (carrier, chain and slat conveyor, transport operator), περιστρεφόμενο βάθρο αποσκευών (carousel), οριζόντιος μεταφορέας (conveyer, horizontal conveyor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מוביל (carrier, conductor, funnel, guide, leading), מסוע. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szállítmányozó (carrier, conveyer, haulage contractor, supplier, transporter, Waggoner, Wagoner), szállítószalag (band, conveyer, conveyer-belt), fuvaros (carter, conveyer, hauler, haulier, teamster, Waggoner, Wagoner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trasportatore (carrier, transporter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 運搬人 (carrier), コン"ュータ"語 (combo, comfrey, competition, complement, complete, completion, complex, compliance, compliment, component, component stereo, component type, composer, composite, composite index, composition, compost, compote, compress, compressor, computation, computer communication, computerese, computing, computopia, computopolis, con brio, confection, confectionery, conference, confession, configuration, conflict, conform, conformism, convention, convention bureau, convention center, convention hall, conventional, conveyor system, convoy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | う"ぱ"に" (carrier), コンベヤー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 컨 이어 (Conveyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ymmyrkagh (bearer, carrier, carrier person, haulage contractor; sustaining, haulier, portable, porter, transporter, vehicle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onveyorcay transportador horizontal (conveyer, horizontal conveyor), transportador (aeroplane carrier, carrying, hauler, haulier, transporter), tapete transportador (conveyor belt), tapete rolante (carousel, moving pavement, moving sidewalk, moving walkway, pedestrian conveyor, speedwalk, travelator, treadmill), passadeira rolante (moving pavement, moving sidewalk, moving walkway, pedestrian conveyor, speedwalk, travelator). (various references) конвейер (conveyer, transporter). (various references) konvejer (conveyer). (various references) transportador (carry, protractor), portador (bearer, carrier, payee). (various references) transportband (conveyer). (various references) taşıyıcı (bearer, carrier, contact, conveyer, germ carrier, haulier, mover, transporter, vector, vehicle), nakledici (conveyer, transmitter), konveyör (conveyer). (various references) konweяer (r). (various references) рознощик (badger, butcher, cadger, conveyer, packman, peddler, pedlar), транспортер (conveyer, forwarder, loader), конве"р (conveyer, line), перевізник (carrier, conveyer, ferryman, sandpiper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conveyor": conveyorise, conveyorised, conveyorises, conveyorising, conveyorization, conveyorizations, conveyorize, conveyorized, conveyorizes, conveyorizing, conveyors. (additional references) | |
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"Conveyor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Consejo, convenor, conveyos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conveyor" (pronounced kunvā"er) |
| 6 | k u n v ā" er | conveyer. |
| 3 | -v ā" er | purveyor, surveyor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-o-r-v-y" | |
-1 letter: overcoy. | |
-2 letters: convey, convoy. | |
-3 letters: coney, cooer, cooey, corny, coven, cover, covey, coyer, crone, crony, croon, envoy, nervy, onery, recon, roven. | |
-4 letters: cero, cone, cony, coon, core, corn, cory, cove, envy, once, oven, over, oyer, rove, very, yore. | |
-5 letters: con, coo, cor, coy, cry, eon, ern, noo, nor, one, orc, ore, rec, rev, roc, roe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-o-r-v-y" | |
+1 letter: conveyors. | |
+3 letters: controversy, conveyorise, conveyorize. | |
+4 letters: conservatory, conveyorised, conveyorises, conveyorized, conveyorizes. | |
+5 letters: conveyorising, conveyorizing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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