(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.
Driver
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
(n.) The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.
(n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
(n.) A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
(n.) The driving wheel of a locomotive.
(n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.
(n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.
(n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
(2) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(3) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
(4) Altogether, 29% of the drivers had evidence of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription or nonprescription stimulants, or some combination of these, in either blood or urine.
(5) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
(6) No one was seriously hurt but the road was closed north and south at 2.15am, and police have asked drivers to find alternatives.
(7) Ridley and Boyega are part of a swathe of actors – also including Girls' Adam Driver and Ingmar Bergman regular Max von Sydow – who were confirmed by studio Disney in May.
(8) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .
(9) The extra enforcement produced increases in the use of seat belts by drivers during the four months of the heightened enforcement.
(10) Unite, which will have to give seven days' notice before calling a strike after winning approval for industrial action in a ballot of the tanker drivers, is expected to finalise a framework that should allow discussions to begin on Monday.
(11) In fact, Amazon Logistics has no drivers and contracts out deliveries to many small- and medium-sized couriers across the country.
(12) Scoble shook his head, suggesting that by showing his Glass to "more than 600 people: bus drivers, school teachers..." he (and thus Google) is getting feedback from a wider demographic group.
(13) Drivers with little education and low income, younger drivers, and drivers who drove after heavy drinking or marijuana use, or both, were least likely to wear seatbelts.
(14) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
(15) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(16) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
(17) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(18) The elderly driver problem will increase gradually as their share of the population increases but will remain relatively small.
(19) Memo to bosses: expect zero loyalty from your zero-hours workers | Barbara Ellen Read more Field asked them to detail the costs couriers are expected to meet themselves, such as uniform and fuel, as well as data on their average hourly rate and information about what efforts the companies go to to ensure owner-drivers are earning the “ national living wage ”.
(20) The reassociation kinetics have been measured for radioactive Escherichia coli DNAs (tracers) of various average single-strand lengths reassociated alone and in the presence of excess unlabeled DNA (driver) of two different average lengths.