RIVET
\ɹˈɪvɪt], \ɹˈɪvɪt], \ɹ_ˈɪ_v_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of RIVET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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fasten with a rivet or rivets
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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
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hold (someone's attention); "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists"
By Princeton University
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fasten with a rivet or rivets
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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
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hold (someone's attention); "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A short metal bolt with a head on one end. Used to fasten together two or more pieces of wood, metal, etc., by passing it through holes and forming a head on the plain end by hammering.
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To secure with, or as with, such a bolt; to clinch; make firm or secure; as, to rivet friendship.
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Riveter.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A bolt of metal fastened by being hammered at both ends.
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To fasten with a rivet: to make firm or immovable:-pr.p. riveting; pa.t. and pa.p. riveted.
By Daniel Lyons
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Pin or bolt fastened by hammering out the end.
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To fasten with rivets; fasten by spreading the point.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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