Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metal bolt or pin having a head on one end, inserted through aligned holes in the pieces to be joined and then hammered on the plain end so as to form a second head.
- transitive verb To fasten or secure, especially with a rivet or rivets.
- transitive verb To hammer and bend or flatten the headless end of (a nail or bolt) so as to fasten something.
- transitive verb To fix the attention of (someone).
- transitive verb To engross or hold (the gaze or attention, for example).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short metallic malleable pin or bolt passing through a hole and so fastened as to keep pieces of metal (or sometimes other substances) together; especially, a short bolt or pin of wrought-iron, copper, or of any other malleable material, formed with a head and inserted into a hole at the junction of two or more pieces of metal, the point after insertion being hammered broad so as to keep the pieces closely bound together.
- To fasten with a rivet or with rivets: as, to
rivet two pieces of iron. - To clench: as, to
rivet a pin or bolt. - Figuratively, to fasten firmly; make firm, strong, or immovable: as, to
rivet friendship. - noun The roe of a fish.
- noun Bearded wheat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends.
- noun a joint between two or more pieces secured by rivets.
- transitive verb To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets.
- transitive verb To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head.
- transitive verb Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through ahole and deforming the head(s) at either end. - noun figuratively any fixed point or certain basis
- noun obsolete a light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from
almain-rivet ) - verb transitive to
attach orfasten parts by using rivets - verb transitive to
install rivets - verb transitive to
command theattention of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together
- noun ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- verb direct one's attention on something
- verb hold (someone's attention)
- verb fasten with a rivet or rivets
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The lower right quadrant, if it has anything in it, will be a “C”, to indicate that the butt side of the rivet is to be countersunk, (such as a double flush plug) for the NACA method (82 degrees, rather than the 100 degrees for under a manufactered head).
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The lower right quadrant, if it has anything in it, will be a “C”, to indicate that the butt side of the rivet is to be countersunk, (such as a double flush plug) for the NACA method (82 degrees, rather than the 100 degrees for under a manufactered head).
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Bike chain rivet setter, removable 5m allen wrench, screwdriver for slotted and Phillips head screws
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Naturally, he climbs to the rooftop, where he finds that his "rivet" is merely a dropped lunch box.
Archive 2008-01-01 Brian Hughes 2008
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Naturally, he climbs to the rooftop, where he finds that his "rivet" is merely a dropped lunch box.
DC Fatties: The Fat Boy of Metropolis Brian Hughes 2008
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This kind of rivet is used to connect delicate materials - the hammering of the rivet head requires only little force.
2. Kinds of rivets Frank Wenghfer 1990
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The allowance depends on the kind of rivet and on the field of application:
5. Calculations for the selection of rivets Frank Wenghfer 1990
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Lest the piece should slip through the hole in the lip, a kind of rivet is formed by twine bound round the inner extremity, and this, protruding into the space left by the extraction of the four front teeth of the lower jaw, entices the tongue to act upon the extremity, which gives it a wriggling motion indescribably ludicrous during conversation.
In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857
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iMechanica - Comments Abraham 2010
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pikachu commented on the word rivet
What I really wanted was rivets, by heaven! Rivets. To get on with the work--to stop the hole. Rivets I wanted. There were cases of them down at the coast--cases--piled up--burst--split! You kicked a loose rivet at every second step in that station yard on the hillside. Rivets had rolled into the grove of death. You could fill your pockets with rivets for the trouble of stooping down--and there wasn't one rivet to be found where it was wanted.
--Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
March 9, 2011