conveyor belt

English

Etymology

conveyor +‎ belt.

Noun

conveyor belt (plural conveyor belts)

1. A continuous flexible band moved by a series of rollers to transport objects or material from one place to another, especially within a factory or mine.
   • 1964 July, “Ford Traffic Won by BR”, in Modern Railways, page 20:

     BR success in establishing this new "Company" train service follows a year's operation of a conveyor-belt traffic in car parts between the Ford plant at Dagenham and the firm's recently-opened £30m Merseyside factory at Halewood, where Ford Corsairs, Capris and Anglias are manufactured.

   • 2022 February 23, “Network News: Conveyor belt to move HS2 earth”, in RAIL, number 951, page 20:

     Buckinghamshire Council has received proposals from HS2 Ltd to install a conveyor belt near Small Dean, Wendover. [...] The conveyor belt would be in place for two years and is estimated to remove the need for some 200 lorries per day.

Translations

continuous band moved to transport objects

• Arabic: حِزَام نَاقِل‎ m (ḥizām nāqil)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傳送帶／传送带 (zh) (chuánsòngdài)

• Czech: dopravní pás m
• Danish: rullebånd n
• Dutch: loopband
• Faroese: flutningsband n
• Finnish: liukuhihna
• French: bande transporteuse f
• German: Förderband n, Transportband n, Fließband n, Laufband m
• Hebrew: מַסּוֹעַ‎ m (masóa'), סֶרֶט נָע‎ m (séret na')
• Hindi: कन्वेयर बेल्ट (kanveyar belṭ)
• Hungarian: futószalag, szállítószalag
• Icelandic: færiband n
• Italian: nastro trasportatore m
• Japanese: ベルトコンベア (berutokonbea), コンベア (konbea)
• Korean: 컨베이어 벨트 (keonbeieo belteu), 컨베이어 (keonbeieo)
• Maori: ara nekeneke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: transportbånd n, transportband n

  Nynorsk: transportband n

• Portuguese: esteira rolante f
• Romanian: bandă rulantă f
• Russian: ле́нточный конве́йер m (léntočnyj konvéjer), ле́нточный транспортёр m (léntočnyj transportjór), конве́йер m (konvéjer), конве́йер m (konvéjer)
• Spanish: cinta transportadora f
• Swedish: band n, transportband n
• Tamil: கொண்டுவார் (koṇṭuvār)
• Thai: สายพาน (sǎai-paan)
• Vietnamese: băng chuyền, băng tải
• Yiddish: קאָנווייער‎ m (konveyer)

Anagrams

• belt conveyor