Rivet

Definition: Rivet

Rivet

Noun

1. Ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt).

2. 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

1. Focus one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies".

2. Fasten with a rivet or rivets.

3. Hold (someone's attention); "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rivet" was first used: 1358. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Rivet

Attention

Examine, examine closely, examine intently; scan, scrutinize, consider; give one's mind to, bend one's mind to; overhaul, revise, pore over; inspect, review, pass under review; take stock of; fix the eye on, rivet attention on, fix attention on, devote the eye to, fix the mind on, devote the thoughts to; hear out, think out; mind one's business.

Catch the eye, strike the eye; attract notice; catch the attention, awaken the attention, wake the attention, invite the attention, solicit the attention, attract the attention, claim the attention excite the attention, engage the attention, occupy the attention, strike the attention, arrest the attention, fix the attention, engross the attention, absorb the attention, rivet the attention, catch the mind, awaken the mind, wake the mind, invite the mind, solicit the mind, attract the mind, claim the mind excite the mind, engage the mind, occupy the mind, strike the mind, arrest the mind, fix the mind, engross the mind, absorb the mind, rivet the mind, catch the thoughts, awaken the thoughts, wake the thoughts, invite the thoughts, solicit the thoughts, attract the thoughts, claim the thoughts excite the thoughts, engage the thoughts, occupy the thoughts, strike the thoughts, arrest the thoughts, fix the thoughts, engross the thoughts, absorb the thoughts, rivet the thoughts; be present to the mind, be uppermost in the mind.

Connection

Pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent, larigo, pawl; terret, treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp, hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet, tag; tooth; hook, hook and eye; lock, holdfast, padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron, trennel, stake, post.

Excitation

Absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the heart; prey on the mind, distract; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower; bouleverser, upset, turn one's head.

Junction

Braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase; graft, ingraft,

Memory

Commit to memory, memorize; con over, con; fix in the memory, rivet in the memory, imprint in the memory, impress in the memory, stamp in the memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the memory, store in the memory, treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory, embalm in the memory, enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the memory with, stuff the memory with, burden the memory with.

Severity

Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.

Crosswords: Rivet

French (rivet).

References

• Chicago Rivet & Machine Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Michigan Rivet Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Bolt and Screw Nuts, Screws and Rivet Manufacturing in Taiwan [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• CHICAGO RIVET & MACHINE CO.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series) (reference)

• Correspondance intâegrale d'Andrâe Rivet et de Claude Sarrau (reference)

• Nut, Bolt, Screw and Rivet Manufacturing in Australia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Osopikahikiwak: Jane Ash Poitras & Rick Rivet (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Rivet (reference)

• Rivet Head Culture (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

RC-135 "Rivet Joint".

Senior Airman Scott Black (front), Master Sgt. Charles Botdorf and Staff Sgt. Brian Sommers (back) of the 97th Intelligence Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., operate test equipment on board an RC-135 Rivet Joint. The Air Force announced a force struc.

Damage to the ship's starboard bow from the 29 September 1918 explosion of a mine laid by the German submarine U-117. Photographed in drydock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 1 October 1918. Note hull plating pushed into internal framing and many split seams with open rivet holes. The side armor at the top of the view does not appear to have been much distorted, if at all, by the explosion. Credit: NAVY.

Rivet work in saddle repair shop. Alpine, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tank armor production. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Farrell, Pennsylvania. Rivet holes for the armor plates of military tanks are run on a vertical drill press in an Eastern mill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Topeka, Kansas. Eladio Tostato, steel car repairer's helper and rivet heater, at the car shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Agnes Glunt, mother of a child four years old, employed as a rivet heater in the Pitcairn, Pennsylvania Railroad steel car shop, earning seventy-two cents per hour. Her husband works at the Westinghouse Electric Company. Credit: Library of Congress.

Boston and Maine railroad shops at Billerica, Massachusetts. Welder using special flame to melt only head of rivet so it can be removed without burning other metal of car. Credit: Library of Congress.

Punching rivet holes in a frame member for a B-25 bomber, the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Calif. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

I wish I could conjecture how soon I shall make this rivet quite firm

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "rivet": expansive rivet ♦ explosive rivet ♦ hoop rivet ♦ icebox rivet ♦ rivet head ♦ rivet joint ♦ rivet line ♦ rivet one's attention on ♦ rivet one's eyes on ♦ rivet one's eyes on smb.. Additional references.

Beginning with "rivet": rivet-gun.

Ending with "rivet": filigree-and-rivet, over-rivet.

Albanian

perçinoj (clinch), perçinë, gozhdoj (attract, chain, nail, nail down, pin, root, Spike), gozhdë e vogël. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مسمار (brad, nail, pin, spike, staple, tack), ‏لفت الانتباه (draw, engage, grab, point, stress), ‏جذب (allure, attract, attraction, catch, charm, engage, entice, hale, haul, magnetize, press, pull, strain, tempt), ‏ثبت بإحكام, ‏ثبت ببرشام, ‏برشم (seal), ‏برشام. (various references)

Bulgarian 

нит (clinch), занитвам (clench, clinch). (various references)

Chinese 

�"��'� (riveter), 使固定 (make firm). (various references)

Czech

upevnit (anchor, confine, consolidate, fasten, fix, forge, infix, make up, moor, picket, plant, plant in, secure, ship, solidify, Spike, steady, strengthen), snýtovat, nýt. (various references)

Danish

nitte (riveted bolt), mirakelhvede (cone wheat, Egyptian wheat US, poulard wheat, turgid wheat), engelsk hvede (cone wheat, Egyptian wheat US, poulard wheat, turgid wheat), buttet hvede (cone wheat, Egyptian wheat US, poulard wheat, turgid wheat). (various references)

Dutch

vastklinken, klinknagel, klinken (sound), klinkbout. (various references)

Esperanto

nito, niti. (various references)

Faeroese

njóða, klinka (handle, solder). (various references)

Farsi 

پرچین کردن , پرچ کردن (Clench, Clinch), محکم کردن (Clinch, Consolidate, Fix, Gird, Reinforce, Spoke, Stake, Tighten), بهم میخ زدن , بامیخ پرچ محکم کردن . (various references)

Finnish

niitti, niitata, kartiovehnä (cone wheat, Egyptian wheat US, poulard wheat, turgid wheat), englanninvehnä (cone wheat, Egyptian wheat US, poulard wheat, turgid wheat). (various references)

French

rivet. (various references)

German

nieten (rivets), Niete (blank, bummer, dead loss, dunce, failure, incompetent, no-account, plonker, slouch, stud, washout), Niet (blank, stud), heften (baste, basting, clip, crimp, peg up, pin, sew, sew on, sew together, staple, stitch, tack, tack up). (various references)

Greek 

καρφώνω (fasten with nails, nail, peg, peg out, pin, skewer, sprig, tack). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסמרת (clinch, dowel, pin), מסמר � יטים, מסמר (gad, nail, peg, pin, stud), לסמרר, לסמר (harden, nail, stiffen). (various references)

Hungarian

szegecs (clinch, stud, tack). (various references)

Italian

ribattino. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鋲 (hobnail, tack, thumbtack), リ�"ア山猫 (liberation, libido, Libyan wildcat, lift, liftback, living, living kitchen, living room, living room set, living stock, makeover, rebate, reboot, reference, reference guide, referencer, refinance, refine, reflation, reflect, reflection, reflective, reform instructor, reform plan, refrain, refresh, refreshment, repeat, repeater, replace, replicate, replication, reply, repression, reprint, reproduction, revision, rib, rib roast, rift, ripple, updating). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

リベット , びょう (hobnail, second, tack, thumbtack). (various references)

Korean 

리� 트. (various references)

Manx

broillaghey (burr, hack, turn, turn as edge of tool, turn over), broill (burr). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivetray.(various references)

Portuguese

rebite (clinch, stud), rebitar (clinch). (various references)

Romanian

nituire (clinch), nitui (clinch), nit, ghintui (groove, rifle, thread), fereca (arrest, chain, fascinate, hoop, shoe), cui de nituit, consolida (bind, brace, bracket, confirm, consolidate, fix, fortify, fund, reinforce, secure, solidify, steady, stiffen, strengthen), aţinti (fix, focus, nail), ţintui (arrest, charm, clench, clinch, fascinate, fasten, fasten on, fasten upon, fix, nail, nail down, peg at, pin, stud, tack). (various references)

Russian 

клепать заклепка, клепать, заклепка (clincher). (various references)

Scottish

drithlean (a rivet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zakovati (nail, nail down), zakivak (clinch), uperiti (aim, fix, point, train), nitna. (various references)

Spanish

remache (clinch). (various references)

Swedish

nita (clench, clinch), nit (Ardor, ardour, blank, zeal, zealotry). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ติ�"ตรึง, ตอก�"้วยหมุ�", หมุ�"โลหะสำหรับตอกยึ�". (various references)

Turkish

perçinlemek (clench, clinch), perçin çivisi, perçin (riveting), konsantre olmak (center, centre, concentrate, pore, pore over), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), bir noktaya dikmek, bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed). (various references)

Turkmen 

berзin. (various references)

Ukrainian

клепати (clink), зосереджувати (center, centralize, centre, concentrate, rally), заклепка (clench, clinch, clincher). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đinh tán. (various references)

Welsh

rhybedio (reverberate), lletem (stud, wedge), hem (border, hem). (various references)

Triticum turgidum. (various references)

wriven. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "rivet": riveted, riveter, riveters, riveting, rivetingly, rivets, rivetted, rivetting. (additional references)

Words ending with "rivet": grivet, privet, trivet. (additional references)

Words containing "rivet": drivetrain, drivetrains, grivets, privets, trivets. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Rivet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bivet, driveth, fivet, Givat, hivet, iret, Irve, Iuvdt, ivet, jivet, Krovetz, Ravetch, Reivich, revit, revitt, ribet, Riet, Rieti, riget, ripet, Ritvo, rivate, rivayat, rivea, rivem, rivett, rivi, rivia, rivit, rivo, rivot, Rivox, rivy, Rovesti, ryva, tivet, wivet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rite, rive, tier, tire, vert, vier.

-2 letters: ire, rei, ret, rev, tie, vet, vie.

-3 letters: er, et, it, re, ti.

+1 letter: divert, grivet, invert, privet, rivets, stiver, strive, thrive, trivet, verist, verite, verity, virtue.

+2 letters: brevity, diverts, evictor, furtive, grivets, inverts, inviter, overlit, overtip, private, privets, restive, revisit, revuist, riveted, riveter, rivulet, stivers, strived, striven, striver, strives, stuiver, thrived, thriven, thriver, thrives, trivets, variate, variety, vastier, venturi, verdict, veriest, verists, veritas, verites, vertigo, vetiver, vibrate, vintner, virgate, virtues, visiter, vitamer, vitrine, vomiter.