conveyor belt

American  

noun

Machinery.

• conveyor belts
  plural

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.

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conveyor belt British  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• conveyor belts
  plural

Etymology

Origin of conveyor belt

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

conveyor belt

I worked a teamster job loading magazines onto a conveyor belt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a vast system of ocean currents that acts like a planetary conveyor belt.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

That jet stream acts as a giant conveyor belt, bringing storms and rain to the Southern U.S. — but that El Niño conveyor belt doesn’t typically reach northern states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The first stop on the conveyor belts takes the materials over a series of rolling coils called an auger screen that sift out the cardboard and push it to a separate conveyor belt.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

I imagine each book traveling on a white conveyor belt toward rectangular white stations where robotic white arms dust, scrape, spray, and otherwise sterilize it until it’s finally deemed clean enough to come to me.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon