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  • noun Plural form of conveyor.

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Examples

  • The central wheel controls some forty "conveyors," half of which compose the types into language, while the other half distribute them, guided by certain nicks cut upon their sides, to their proper places, when no longer needed.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

  • Or applications such as conveyors in automotive plants, out-feed conveyors on packaging machines, or large packaging machines like palletizers and pallet wrappers.

    All DN headlines 2009

  • The Rossi division has had significant success in a wide range of applications and markets, such as conveyors, mixers & agitators, leisure rides, quarrying, machine tools, food processing automotives, cooling towers, the cement industry and numerous related sectors.

    Packaging and Converting Essentials 2008

  • They know that change and unexpected moments of transformation are conveyors of n|om.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Reports called out from underground company examiners not long before the explosion indicated belt conveyors that needed to be rock dusted, officials said.

    Ellen Smith: Coal Dust Propagated Upper Big Branch Explosion: MSHA Ellen Smith 2011

  • The achievement of "Shapeshifting" is to shift our notions of pots and pouches from alluring and useful objects to conveyors of personal and metaphysical wisdom.

    Artifacts to Artworks Lee Rosenbaum 2012

  • “A generation ago you would have expected Americans to place their trust in the most neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling, said in a press release.

    Think Progress » Joe Klein Tells O’Reilly: ‘Glenn Beck Is Peddling A Lot Of Hateful Crap’ 2010

  • And though the color — a particularly muddy shade of orange — might not be to everyone's taste, it would most certainly attract the eye of the resolutely ambivalent baggage handlers, whose job it is to rescue the vast swathes of bereft luggage that twirl around the airport conveyors of the world daily.

    Luggage: An Open and Shut Case Tina Gaudoin 2011

  • There, a series of buckets, conveyors and pulleys remove the muck and bring it to street level.

    City Grinds Out a Market for Muck Andrew Grossman 2011

  • Reports called out from underground company examiners not long before the explosion indicated belt conveyors that needed to be rock dusted, officials said.

    Ellen Smith: Coal Dust Propagated Upper Big Branch Explosion: MSHA Ellen Smith 2011

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