Rivet
['rɪvɪt]
解釋/意思:
(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.
(verb.) hold (someone's attention); 'The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists'.
(verb.) fasten with a rivet or rivets.
編輯:卢克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
艾丽萨校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Fasten, fix, make firm.
整理:威尔伯
解釋/意思:
n. bearded wheat.
n. a bolt of metal fastened by being hammered at both ends.—v.t. to fasten with a rivet: to make firm or immovable:—pr.p. riv′eting; pa.t. and pa.p. riv′eted.—ns. Riv′et-cut′ter a tool for cutting off the ends of rivets; Riv′eter Riv′etter; Riv′et-hearth a light portable furnace for heating rivets; Riv′eting; Riv′eting-hamm′er; Riv′eting-machine′ a power-machine for forcing hot rivets into position in metal-work and heading them; Riv′eting-set a hollow-faced punch for swaging rivet-heads; Riv′et-knob a tool for swaging rivet-heads; Riv′et-machine′ a machine for making rivets from rod-iron.
校對:拉弗尔斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Here is the rivet of your mistress's spectacles out. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- There is no one particular spot to chain your eye, rivet your interest, and make you think. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- For our desire is bent that way, and anything which has the flavor of this new interest will rivet our attention. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Mr. Frank Churchill, I must tell you my mother's spectacles have never been in fault since; the rivet never came out again. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- A rivet-making machine forms the rivet, and shapes the head to the requisite size, with great accuracy and quickness. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Another part of the room soon riveted her gaze. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- At the moment, however, we had no thought for the old chest, for our eyes were riveted upon that which crouched beside it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- As for me, every word was a new heap of fetters, riveted above the last. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But the explanation is that their modes of life did not call for attention to such facts, but held their minds riveted to other things. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- After I ceased there was tense silence, as all eyes were riveted upon Tal Hajus. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The total weight of iron in the structure is about 7,000 tons, the weight of the rivets alone being 450 tons, and the total number of them 2,500,000. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Now flowed forth, as from some Vulcan's titanic workshop, machines for making bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, chains, staples, car wheels, shafts, etc. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But, he was girdled still with Bradley's iron ring, and the rivets of the iron ring held tight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Ship building is hastened by these same air drilling and riveting machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In 1809, David Mead Randolph of England patented machinery for riveting soles and heels to the uppers instead of sewing them together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
整理:利亚