conveyor belt
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2.8
- noun
- /kənˈveɪər bɛlt/
:
cinta transportadora
- The factory uses a conveyor belt to transport goods from one assembly station to another.
- the conveyor belt moves
So instead of having people standing along a conveyor belt, you have bacteria that are graded by pH.
- So instead of having people standing along a conveyor belt, you have bacteria that are graded by pH.
- And I felt like one of my happiest was going to the warehouse where this conveyor belt was being made for this show.
- So do we need to buy fork trucks to move things or do we need to put conveyor belts in?
- I've had it with these Yak mouth grocery store clerks making a comment on every fucking thing on the conveyor belt.
- But for for birds did the typical way in which they're killed is they're dumped out of crates onto these moving conveyor belts.
- And the conveyor belt motion provides the other dimension of the image.
Examples
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Her luggage was slightly damaged on the conveyor belt, but she's fine.
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Conveyor belt hauls it to the trucks, and then to the factories.
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Anything to keep our hands moving, to keep going, to keep the conveyor belt in motion.
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People will be getting around on conveyor belts.
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Main conveyor belt for sorting all mail.
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Then the package is on its conveyor belt, going on to Scribner's.
Fiction book (1996) -
The scrap comes in from the chute there onto the conveyor belt.
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Fish are transferred from the hopper by conveyor belts, draglines, or augers.
Academic text (1991) -
Eggs laid by the hens slid down the cage onto a conveyor belt.
Academic text (1997) -
Yes, it is a thing of beauty watching the doughnuts go through the waterfall of sugar glaze on the conveyor belt at Krispy Kreme.
Synonyms
214
4.2
A machine with a moving belt that carries things from one place to another
18
4.6
A machine like a conveyor belt that moves boxes
1
3.7
A moving belt that carries things in a factory
A moving band that carries things like luggage or boxes
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'conveyor' (a device that conveys or moves goods) with 'belt' (a looped strip), yielding a moving belt used to transport objects. This straightforward noun+noun composition follows common compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will easily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Conveyor belt comes from the machines in factories: the word conveyor means 'one who carries' and the belt is a long band that moves, so it is a moving band that carries things. That's why the phrase means 'a moving band used to transport objects from one place to another'.