Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who conveys; one who or that which conveys, carries, transports, transmits, or transfers from one person or place to another. Also sometimes conveyor.
  • noun Specifically, a mechanical contrivance for carrying objects. Applied to those adaptations of band-buckets or spirals which convey grain, chaff, flour, bran, etc., in threshers, elevators, or grinding-mills, or materials to upper stories of warehouses or shops, or buildings in course of erection. Also applied to those arrangements of carriages traveling on ropes by which hay lifted by the horse-fork is conveyed to distant parts of a barn or mow, or materials are carried to a building.
  • noun An impostor; a cheat; a thief.
  • noun In transportation, a general term applied to a variety of machines used in moving coal, grain, and other materials in bulk over short distances, in a horizontal direction or up and down moderate inclines.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.
  • noun obsolete One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun rare Alternative spelling of conveyor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)
  • noun a person who conveys (carries or transmits)

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Examples

  • Machinery Company, of Chicago, is now erecting for Mr. Charles E. Coffin, of Muirkirk, Md., about 450 ft. of this conveyer, which is to carry the hot roasted iron ore from the kilns on an incline of about one foot in twelve up to the crusher.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Various

  • There's this thing called the conveyer, and the conveyer does this kind of transition back and forth.

    Comments at Boxes and Arrows Werty Wist 2010

  • The calcined material, on reaching the lower end of the furnace, is discharged on to the floor or on to a suitable "conveyer," and removed to a convenient locality for cooling and subsequent grinding or finishing.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various

  • This was set up, by contributions among the millers, at Shipley's great mill in Wilmington, and also introduced into his own, where his other inventions of the "conveyer" and the

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

  • Couple this with the hypothesis that freshwater melt from Greenland pouring into the Davis Strait dilutes the salinity of the Gulf Stream, which could turn off the Halide (salt) conveyer and turn off the Gulf Stream.

    Man made global warming? No way! 2009

  • Couple this with the hypothesis that freshwater melt from Greenland pouring into the Davis Strait dilutes the salinity of the Gulf Stream, which could turn off the Halide (salt) conveyer and turn off the Gulf Stream.

    Man made global warming? No way! 2009

  • It involved reaching up to the conveyer belt and plucking up the bottles.

    mise en bouteille / wine bottling 2009

  • Once we've fought and lost a losing battle with the pondweed, we spy some pennywort, a weed that sits underneath the water and requires us to go at it repeatedly, using the arm of the conveyer belt to detach it from reeds and scoop it up on to the belt.

    A working life: the lock keeper Mark King 2010

  • It was like a Goya painting: Men, their muscles rippling and bodies glistening in the 90-degree heat of the warehouse, fed carpets onto a conveyer where they were soaked with jets of soap and water.

    Why the Carpet Is White Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • Even before they were loaded onto the conveyer, workers sprayed them with a stain remover-dispensing wand and poured spot remover onto a couple of the more diabolical blotches.

    Why the Carpet Is White Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

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