conveyor belt

noun

, Machinery.

1. an endless belt or chain, set of rollers, etc., for carrying materials or objects short distances, as from one part of a building to another.

conveyor belt

noun

1. a flexible endless strip of fabric or linked plates driven by rollers and used to transport objects, esp in a factory

Word History and Origins

Origin of conveyor belt¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Nearly vertical conveyor belts lifted dry ingredients high up to be deposited into hoppers where they were mixed with water and then the wet concrete was poured into waiting trucks below.

From Los Angeles Times

If not, and Lawson was just the next driver on the conveyor belt, they might as well have waited until the end of the season and drafted the New Zealander in at RB in 2025.

From BBC

Ever since the launch of the Silk Road marketplace in 2011, there has been a steady conveyor belt of websites selling illegal goods and services.

From BBC

A woman has died after becoming trapped in a conveyor belt in a baggage area at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

From BBC

Then the array of detached coils, capacitors, pins and transistors are sieved, sorted, sliced and diced as they move along a conveyor belt.

From BBC