(n.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
(2) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
(3) Disruption of the conveyor-belt current was the basis of the film The Day After Tomorrow, which depicted a world thrown into chaos by a sudden and dramatic drop in temperatures.
(4) An automatic electrocution unit was constructed with a conveyor (negative electrode) and 3 curtains of chains (positive electrodes).
(5) Back out on the shop floor, Davis edges past the 40-strong team of "pickers", who are all intently scanning the recycling as it flashes past them on the conveyor for any contamination missed by the machines.
(6) Sea ice influences the ocean conveyor belt As sea ice forms in the Arctic and Antarctic, dense salty water sinks to the bottom of the ocean starting the “global ocean conveyor belt” that pumps heat and salt around the world’s oceans.
(7) A positive correlation has been shown between the speed of forced stepping on a conveyor belt and the amplitude and frequency of the concomitant hippocampal EEG.
(8) A laboratory automation system consists of robots, conveyor systems, machine vision, and computer hardware and software.
(9) The estimated prevalence of repetitive strain disorder defined by these strict criteria was at least 2% in conveyor belt workers.
(10) The potential of the conveyor belt task for measuring visuo-motor coordination in both primate and rodent species is discussed.
(11) The electrical behavior of the OHC does not disqualify it as a conveyor of auditory information to the central nervous system, even though its primary function may be that of a mechanical effector (evidence summarized by Dallos, P. (1985) in Contemporary Sensory Neurobiology, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp.
(12) Cowell warns against gimmicks on this front: he didn’t like Channel 4’s The Singer Takes It All, for example, with its contestants moving forwards and backwards on conveyor belts as they sang, in response to live voting.
(13) Now they all glide down the conveyor belt from student politics degree to thinktank to public office, there's an expectation of constant diplomacy.
(14) The most widely used training methods are walking (or running), practising on a conveyor belt and using an ergometric bicycle.
(15) A new automated vacuum tester which applies a high voltage, high frequency electric field and a stroboscopic flash to conveyorized vials was found to yield zero percent false rejections of lyophilized vials with internal pressures of less than 62 Torr.
(16) A series of 100 unselected patients who had undergone low lumbar sympathectomy were studied using vascular function tests (digital plethysmography, hyperaemia test, rheography, measurement of segmental pressures and dynamic tests, walking tolerance on a conveyor belt, Strandness test).
(17) Protesters have occupied a planned 1.7m tonne opencast site at Mainshill in South Lanarkshire, sabotaging a coal conveyor belt at another site nearby.
(18) There is the unbeaten Russian Alexander Povetkin, who defends what the WBA call their "world" title, against Marco Huck in Stuttgart on Saturday; and then a conveyor belt of unknowns or former contenders.
(19) They went to a clinic in Spain first – she says there were lots of British people there seeking treatment – but "it felt like a conveyor-belt and I didn't feel happy there".
(20) If I read a blog claiming that the workers at the Twiglet factory weren't allowed to let their cats roam around on the conveyor belt, I'd boycott Twiglets.
Deliver
Definition:
(v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.
(v. t.) To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into.
(v. t.) To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.
(v. t.) To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
(v. t.) To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
(v. t.) To discover; to show.
(v. t.) To deliberate.
(v. t.) To admit; to allow to pass.
(v. t.) Free; nimble; sprightly; active.
Example Sentences:
(1) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(2) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(3) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(4) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(5) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(6) UN internal investigators delivered a report to the then secretary general, Kofi Annan, but it was not published.
(7) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
(8) It was found that preterm infants (delivered before 38 weeks of gestation) had nine times the early neonatal mortality of term infants, irrespective of growth retardation patterns.
(9) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
(10) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(11) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(12) The nurse is in an optimal position to plan and deliver a program and determine its effectiveness.
(13) Endoscopic papillotomy was performed which resulted in a polypoid tumour delivering itself into the wound followed by a free flow of bile.
(14) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
(15) We want to work with others to deliver the firepower needed to challenge the Eurosceptic establishment.
(16) The purpose of this study was to investigate a tumor cell vaccine delivered via peripheral lymphatics as maintenance therapy after induction of remission with chemotherapy.
(17) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(18) Radiation-dose predictions derived from biodistribution studies indicate that a higher tumor dose may be delivered using the SA method than with either 131I-NP-4 IgG or F(ab')2 alone.
(19) HFV was delivered at frequencies (f) of 3, 6, and 9 Hz with a ventilator that generated known tidal volumes (VT) independent of respiratory system impedance.
(20) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.