CONVEYOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conveyor mean? 

• CONVEYOR (noun)
  The noun CONVEYOR has 2 senses:

1. a person who conveys (carries or transmits)

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

  Familiarity information: CONVEYOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVEYOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who conveys (carries or transmits)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

conveyer; conveyor

Context example:

the conveyer of good tidings

Hypernyms ("conveyor" is a kind of...):

courier; messenger (a person who carries a message)

Derivation:

convey ((of information) make known; pass on)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

conveyer; conveyer belt; conveyor; conveyor belt; transporter

Hypernyms ("conveyor" is a kind of...):

belt (endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys)

Domain category:

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conveyor"):

carousel; carrousel; luggage carousel; luggage carrousel (a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers)

Holonyms ("conveyor" is a part of...):

assembly line; line; production line (mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it)

 Context examples 

Microtubules are cylindrical structures that provide shape to cells and act as conveyor belts, ferrying molecular cargo throughout cells.

(Scientists unravel the mystery of the tubulin code, NIH)

In the Atlantic Ocean, a giant ‘conveyor belt’ carries warm waters from the tropics into the North Atlantic, where they cool and sink and then return southwards in the deep ocean.

(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)

They confirmed that changes in the ocean conveyor belt preceded abrupt and major climatic changes during the transition out of the last ice age, referred to as the last deglaciation.

(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)