conveyor

1. 1.

   a person who conveys (carries or transmits)

   “the conveyer of good tidings”

   Synonymsconveyer

   Broadermessenger
2. 2.

   a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)

   Synonymsconveyer beltconveyor beltconveyertransporter

   Broaderbelt

   Narrowercarousel

   Part ofproduction line

   factory

Other forms of conveyor

plural

conveyors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conveyor

What does conveyor mean?

conveyor means "a person who conveys (carries or transmits)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conveyor?

conveyor has 3 syllables: con-ve-yor. The stress falls on "ve". In IPA it is /kənˈveɪɚ/.

What is another word for conveyor?

Close synonyms include conveyer, conveyer belt, conveyor belt, conveyer, transporter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conveyor a common word?

conveyor is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with conveyor?

3 words rhyme with conveyor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.