Crossword clues for rivet
rivet
- Levi's fastener
- Large metal bolt
- Jeans-pocket strengthener
- Hard hat's fastener
- Girder securer
- Fastener for a girder
- Construction-site fastener
- Captivate completely
- Bridge fastener
- Bit of fastening hardware
- Beam-joining bolt
- What Rosie does on some posters (from history)
- Trestle fastener
- Stud on a pair of jeans
- Steelworker's fastener
- Shipyard fastener
- Rosie's target
- Rosie's pin
- Pneumatic hammer target
- Pin for Rosie
- One of over two million in the Eiffel Tower
- Metalworker's pin
- Levi's 501 feature
- Keep engrossed
- Keep engaged
- Keep attentive
- Jeans adornment
- Jeans accent
- Item in a metalworker's gun
- Item for Rosie
- Hold fast, as one's attention
- Hold entranced
- Heavy metal fastener
- Grip, in a theater
- Grip, as the attention
- Golden Gate fastener
- Fix, as attention
- Fix solidly
- Fix closely
- Fastening bolt
- Fastener used to hold girders together
- Fastener that's "bucked"
- Fastener that's "bucked up"
- Fastener at a construction site
- Fasten, as metal
- Fasten — engross
- Copper fastener on Levi's jeans
- Construction connector
- Command the attention of
- Capture fully, as one's attention
- Buttonhead, for one
- Bolt variety
- Bolt for the World War II-era icon Rosie
- Bolt for Rosie
- Bit of hardware on denim jeans
- Bit of hardware for Rosie
- Bit of bridge-building hardware
- Affix firmly
- Rosie's bolt
- Hold, as one's attention
- Beam fastener
- Construction fastener
- Hold, as the attention
- Fix firmly, in a way
- Fasten firmly
- Enrapture
- Fuselage fastener
- Transfix
- Focus
- Pin in a girder
- One of about a million on a jetliner
- Engross
- Jeans reinforcer
- Ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- 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
- Pin in a hole
- Rosie's fastener
- Girder fastener
- Fasten securely
- Secure firmly
- Emulate W.W. II's Rosie
- Fastener for Rosie
- Device for Rosie
- Hold firmly, as one's attention
- Metal pin
- Rosie's need
- Steeplejack's bolt
- Join securely
- Metal fastener used in construction
- Kind of bolt
- Metal bolt
- Emulate Rosie of W.W. II
- Metal fixing pin
- Short metal pin
- Fix support for pot after front falls off
- Firmly fix hedge, trimming the top
- Fasten - engross
- Pin I check under top of roof
- Interest obtained from French bank over time
- Drive-thru screens are fascinating
- Fastening pin
- Jeans feature
- Hold firm
- Hold, as attention
- Jeans fastener
- Construction beam fastener
- Metal holder
- Hull fastener
- Hardware for Rosie
- Fastener in a girder
- Sturdy fastener
- Steel fastener
- Part of a pair of Levi's
- One way to fix firmly
- Levi's jeans feature
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rivet \Riv"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Riveted; p. pr. & vb. n. Riveting.]
To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
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.
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Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
Rivet and nail me where I stand, ye powers!
--Congreve.Thus his confidence was riveted and confirmed.
--Sir W. Scott.
Rivet \Riv"et\, n. [F., fr. river to rivet; perh. fr. Icel. rifa to fasten together. Cf. Reef part of a sail.] 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.
With busy hammers closing rivets up.
--Shak.
Rivet joint, or Riveted joint, a joint between two or more pieces secured by rivets.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French rivet "nail, rivet," from Old French river "to clench, fix, fasten," possibly from Middle Dutch wriven "turn, grind," related to rive (v.). The English word may be directly from Middle Dutch.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end. 2 (context figuratively English) any fixed point or certain basis 3 (context obsolete English) a light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet) vb. 1 (context transitive English) to attach or fasten parts by using rivets 2 (context transitive English) to install rivets 3 (context transitive English) to command the attention of.
WordNet
n. ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) [syn: stud]
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
v. direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore]
fasten with a rivet or rivets
hold (someone's attention); "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists"
Wikipedia
A rivet is a mechanical fastener.
Rivet or rivets may also refer to:
- Rivet (surname), a list of people so named
- Apache Rivet, a computer programming language
- Rivet (software), Mac/ Xbox 360 networking software
- Rivet High School (Vincennes, Indiana), a Roman Catholic private school
- Rivets, a comic strip syndicated by cartoonist George Sixta
- Fast Workers, a 1933 film also titled Rivets
Rivet is a shareware application for Mac OS X 10.5, developed by Cynical Peak Software. It was first released on April 12, 2008. The Little App Factory purchased Rivet in 2010 for an undisclosed sum.
The application allows Mac OS X users to stream their iTunes music library, iPhoto photo library, and movies to their Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, similar to Windows Media Connect on Windows.
The software competes with Nullriver's Connect360, and likewise either directly feeds or transcodes AAC, MP3, WMA, H.262, DIVX, AVI, WMV, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, TIFF, PSD, PDF files and more.
A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener. Before being installed, a rivet consists of a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one end. The end opposite to the head is called the tail. On installation the rivet is placed in a punched or drilled hole, and the tail is upset, or bucked (i.e., deformed), so that it expands to about 1.5 times the original shaft diameter, holding the rivet in place. In other words, pounding creates a new "head" on the other end by smashing the "tail" material flatter, resulting in a rivet that is roughly a dumbbell shape. To distinguish between the two ends of the rivet, the original head is called the factory head and the deformed end is called the shop head or buck-tail.
Because there is effectively a head on each end of an installed rivet, it can support tension loads (loads parallel to the axis of the shaft); however, it is much more capable of supporting shear loads (loads perpendicular to the axis of the shaft). Bolts and screws are better suited for tension applications.
Fastenings used in traditional wooden boat building, such as copper nails and clinch bolts, work on the same principle as the rivet but were in use long before the term rivet was introduced and, where they are remembered, are usually classified among nails and bolts respectively.
Rivet is the surname of:
- André Rivet (1572-1651), French Huguenot theologian
- Craig Rivet (born 1974), Canadian hockey player
- Élise Rivet (1890-1945), Roman Catholic nun and war heroine
- Louis-Alfred-Adhémar Rivet (1873-1951), Canadian lawyer and politician
- Paul Rivet (1876-1958), French ethnologist
Usage examples of "rivet".
The crowd sat riveted, watching as the Baptist drew near the east bank of the river.
The climber was methodical, working multi-pitch, shooting out spindles of wire ahead that buried and fused into the rock, testing the weight of the anchors, squatting to plant rivets beneath us, roping hexes into the cracks, taking the slack, testing, belaying, moving on.
Once engaged, she was riveted by the compelling, beseeching, anguished intensity of his demand for an answer to his question.
Fremont, I had just begun doing some riveting research into ancient Greek Orthodox ecclesiology at the library.
Wolfric moved his way to the front where Emich and his captains were gathered, and having said something, Emich turned a riveting stare upon Tancred.
I had been riveted to the ground at the sight of the nailed rabbit, so I was equally riveted now, for Fitty was looking at something in his hand.
If the night had been fogless, he would have been able to count the rivets in the metal door of the embalmery-crematorium.
A metallic, slithering rasp roared through the underground halls, the sound of a thousand habergeons of chain mail being dragged rapidly across riveted sheet iron.
On her right, she saw a forest of blue beamsthe big industrial jigs that held the fuselage barrels in place, while they were riveted together.
Theos at once joined him, and the two friends, holding each other fast by the arm, gazed down on the silent, mighty multitude around them,--a huge concourse of the citizens of Al-Kyris, who, strange as this part of their behavior seemed, still paid no heed to the presence of their Laureate, but with pale, rapt faces and anxious, frightened eyes, riveted their attention entirely on the sombre, blackgarmented Prophet whose thin ghostly arms, outstretched above them, appeared to mutely invoke in their behalf some special miracle of mercy.
In the noise and tumult of battle, with the full attention of the Zarian warriors riveted on their foes, the Barbary Pirates, none but Murg noticed this burst of action.
Daphne and Nyala were only fifteen feet away, but they were both staring at Quinn and seemed riveted in place.
Dorrin lifts the ball peen hammer and with four quick offset strokes finishes the top of the first rivet holding the iron of the wagon tongue in place.
They were riveting, making her wonder for a moment why she was there, until she caught sight of Rickey again.
From it hung a long, heavy knifethe only metal tool he appeared to ownin a flapped and riveted sheath.