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Definition of Rivet
1. Noun. Ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt).
2. Verb. Direct one's attention on something. "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
Specialized synonyms: Absorb, Engross, Engulf, Immerse, Plunge, Soak Up, Steep, Recall, Think, Zoom In, Hear, Listen, Take Heed
Generic synonyms: Cerebrate, Cogitate, Think
Derivative terms: Center, Centering, Concentration, Concentration, Focus, Focusing, Focussing
3. 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.
4. Verb. Fasten with a rivet or rivets.
5. Verb. Hold (someone's attention). "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists"
Related verbs: Center, Centre, Concentrate, Focus, Pore
Definition of Rivet
1. 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.
2. v. t. To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
Definition of Rivet
1. Noun. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) any fixed point or certain basis ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) a light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet) ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) to attach or fasten parts by using rivets ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) to install rivets ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) to command the attention of. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rivet
1. to fasten with a type of metal bolt [v -ETED, -ETING, -ETS or -ETTED, -ETTING, -ETS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rivet
Literary usage of Rivet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Loose rivets can be detected by tapping the rivet head with a hammer. Clearance.—It
is not possible to drive a rivet unless there is ample clearance for the ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"In 1632 Frederick Henry appointed rivet tutor of his son, later William II., while
the university made him honorary professor. ..."
3. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1921)
"A gang for hand riveting consists of four men, (1) a rivet heater, (2) a
bucker-up, (3) a rivet driver, and (4) a man to catch and enter the rivets, ..."
4. The Design of Steel Mill Buildings and the Calculation of Stresses in Framed by Milo Smith Ketchum (1921)
"If the holes will not match they should be reamed. A gang for hand riveting
consists of four men, (1) a rivet heater, (2) a bucker-up, (3) a rivet driver ..."
5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"On this plate is shown the method of drawing a rivet and various forms of riveted
joints. ... The various dimensions of the rivet are given in the figure. ..."
6. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"The rivets are in bearing on a ?fi-in. plate, and their value is 5625 Ib.
per rivet; the number required is 32600/5625 — 6 rivets. Fig. ..."
7. The Design of Steam Boilers and Pressure Vessels by George Bartholomew Haven, George Wright Swett (1915)
"Divide the net metal ab between rivet toles, in a horizontal direction, Fig.
52, into three equal parts. Taking a radius consisting of a rivet diameter plus ..."
8. The Theory and Practice of Modern Framed Structures. Designed for the Use of by John Butler Johnson, C. W. Bryan, Frederick Eugene Turneaure (1904)
"In ordering rivets first find the grip or distance between the heads ot the rivet.
The grip of the rivet is the thickness of the plates or parts through ..."
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