conveyor beltnoun [ C ]
uk/kənˈveɪ.ə ˌbelt/us/kənˈveɪ.ɚ ˌbelt/also conveyora continuous moving strip or surface that is used for transporting objects from one place to another
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Factories
- assembly line
- brewery
- cannery
- cooling tower
- distillery
- industrial estate
- knacker's yard
- mill
- miller
- mint
- on the factory floor idiom
- pallet
- plant
- power station
- production line
- refinery
- sweatshop
- tannery
- the shop floor
- workshop
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Examples from literature
- A little farther on, the sound of shots ahead became audible over the clanking and rattling of the conveyor belts.
- One of the boys scouted ahead, and returned to report that they could reach the next conduit port, but that the section of both conveyor belts ahead of him was stopped, apparently wedged.