Crossword clues for conveyor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conveyor \Con*vey"or\, n. (Mach.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person that conveys, transports or delivers. 2 Anything that conveys, transports or delivers. 3 A mechanical arrangement for transporting material or objects, generally over short or moderate distances, as from one part of a building to another.
WordNet
n. a person who conveys (carries or transmits); "the conveyer of good tidings" [syn: conveyer]
a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) [syn: conveyer belt, conveyor belt, conveyer, transporter]
Wikipedia
A conveyor system transports materials from one place to another.
Conveyor may also refer to:
- Conveyor (sternwheeler)
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Conveyor belt
- Conveyor belt ski lift
- Conveyor belt sushi
- Chain conveyor
- Lineshaft roller conveyor
Conveyor is an American art rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The band consists of T.J. Masters (vocals, guitar), Alan Busch (vocals, guitar), Evan Garfield (backing vocals, drums), and Michael Pedron (backing vocals, bass).
They have released one full-length album as well as a number of self-released singles and EPs.
Usage examples of "conveyor".
The reef was dropped into the massive storage bins, while the waste was carried off on a conveyor to the wash house to be sluiced down before going to the dump.
Again there was a massive conveyor belt moving steadily along the tunnel while ore from the bins above was fed onto it.
The radio was on all day as Tatiana filled her flamethrowers with thick petroleum and nitrocellulose, while through the open double doors the metal machine poured projectiles of different sizes onto the conveyor belt.
They were varnishing ladders, and when they finished the ladders, they would start painting the tracks for the conveyors that ran nonstop when the packinghouse was in full operation.
Vladak explained that, adequately stunned or not, the hogs then slid down onto a conveyor table where a shackler wrapped a shackle around one of the hind legs and hoisted the animal up onto the moving chain.
I went after him but a Skycap had me by the ankles before I could get down the conveyor.
And then, best of all, is this little matter of sixteen unpatrolled miles of conveyor belting.
Sixteen miles of conveyor, fourteen miles of unpatrolled perimeter, and eight men to cover.
Above his head the conveyor belt carrying the gravel ran smoothly, but the residual heat from the driers made it unbearably hot.
Robot forklifts moved mountains of colored plastic containers and dumped them on wide, massive conveyors that carried them away and out of sight.
He woke, the list of time line designations in his hand, when the conveyor rematerialized on Home Time Line.
The pack of tyrannosauruses dashed for the subdivision like a conveyor belt, a never-ending stream.
There was a conveyor strip for possessions beside the walk-through entrance, but he held on to the bag.
An old friend of his from the days at MME was now overseeing the Beneficiation and Extraction Department and let him take a slightly illicit shortcut and hitch a ride on a conveyor belt that was supposed to be carrying pulverized material to the oxygen-extraction plant, allowing Rafik to arrive at Delszaki Li's quarters shortly after docking and a good ten minutes before he was expected there.
Each one was transparent, about 50 centimeters high, and had biomonitoring displays at the front The life-supportive equipment was concealed in the walls behind the racks, as was the conveyor system that transported encapsulated embryos to various parts of the building for study or processing.