Rivet
['rɪvɪt]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Luke--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checked by Alissa
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Fasten, fix, make firm.
Checker: Wilbur
Definition
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.
Checker: Raffles
Examples
- Here is the rivet of your mistress's spectacles out. Jane Austen. Emma.
- There is no one particular spot to chain your eye, rivet your interest, and make you think. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For our desire is bent that way, and anything which has the flavor of this new interest will rivet our attention. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Frank Churchill, I must tell you my mother's spectacles have never been in fault since; the rivet never came out again. Jane Austen. Emma.
- A rivet-making machine forms the rivet, and shapes the head to the requisite size, with great accuracy and quickness. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Another part of the room soon riveted her gaze. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- At the moment, however, we had no thought for the old chest, for our eyes were riveted upon that which crouched beside it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- As for me, every word was a new heap of fetters, riveted above the last. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- 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. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- After I ceased there was tense silence, as all eyes were riveted upon Tal Hajus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- 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. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Out of men's afflictions and affections were forged the rivets of their servitude. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Now flowed forth, as from some Vulcan's titanic workshop, machines for making bolts, nuts, rivets, screws, chains, staples, car wheels, shafts, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But, he was girdled still with Bradley's iron ring, and the rivets of the iron ring held tight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Ship building is hastened by these same air drilling and riveting machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1809, David Mead Randolph of England patented machinery for riveting soles and heels to the uppers instead of sewing them together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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