conveyor
noun
con·vey·or kən-ˈvā-ər 
variants or less commonly conveyer
: one that conveys: such as
a
: a person who transfers property
b
usually conveyor : a mechanical apparatus for moving articles or bulk material from place to place (as by an endless moving belt or a chain of receptacles)
Example Sentences
the conveyor of good news
Recent Examples on the Web The conveyor-belt mechanisms, truck weighing scale, steel frameworks and loading areas that punctuate the exterior space hint at the architectural elements that await patrons once the interior facility opens later. 
Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022 Boxes will be taken from the back of a truck and inducted onto a conveyor. Steve Banker, Forbes, 3 June 2022 The project proposal detailed the process: Cold feed bins would be loaded from stockpiles of on-site aggregate and then fed into a drying drum using a conveyor. Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2022 Players must save various cards from a moving conveyor and place them onto one of three rows to make winning hands before being obliterated by the deck dicer. Jacob Siegal, BGR, 3 Feb. 2022 Smaller packages are hand sorted; larger boxes go through a conveyor and are siphoned for one of the bright yellow vans lined up with doors open. Marc Bona, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021 If a conveyor is down, employees cannot sort materials. Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021 Instead of sending sides of beef to butcher shops, IBP workers stood side-by-side, each making a specific cut to disassemble a carcass moving down a conveyor. Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 21 Dec. 2020 That goal is helped along by Oath’s conveyor-belt Ovention oven, which pushes out the pizza about a minute and a half after it is placed on the belt. Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2022 See More
Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022 Boxes will be taken from the back of a truck and inducted onto a conveyor. Steve Banker, Forbes, 3 June 2022 The project proposal detailed the process: Cold feed bins would be loaded from stockpiles of on-site aggregate and then fed into a drying drum using a conveyor. Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2022 Players must save various cards from a moving conveyor and place them onto one of three rows to make winning hands before being obliterated by the deck dicer. Jacob Siegal, BGR, 3 Feb. 2022 Smaller packages are hand sorted; larger boxes go through a conveyor and are siphoned for one of the bright yellow vans lined up with doors open. Marc Bona, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021 If a conveyor is down, employees cannot sort materials. Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021 Instead of sending sides of beef to butcher shops, IBP workers stood side-by-side, each making a specific cut to disassemble a carcass moving down a conveyor. Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, 21 Dec. 2020 That goal is helped along by Oath’s conveyor-belt Ovention oven, which pushes out the pizza about a minute and a half after it is placed on the belt. Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
circa 1514, in the meaning defined above