Rivet

What do we mean by rivet?

A metal bolt or pin having a head on one end, inserted through aligned holes in the pieces to be joined and then hammered on the plain end so as to form a second head. noun

To fasten or secure, especially with a rivet or rivets. transitive verb

To hammer and bend or flatten the headless end of (a nail or bolt) so as to fasten something. transitive verb

To fix the attention of (someone). transitive verb

To engross or hold (the gaze or attention, for example). transitive verb

A short metallic malleable pin or bolt passing through a hole and so fastened as to keep pieces of metal (or sometimes other substances) together; especially, a short bolt or pin of wrought-iron, copper, or of any other malleable material, formed with a head and inserted into a hole at the junction of two or more pieces of metal, the point after insertion being hammered broad so as to keep the pieces closely bound together. noun

To fasten with a rivet or with rivets: as, to rivet two pieces of iron.

To clench: as, to rivet a pin or bolt.

Figuratively, to fasten firmly; make firm, strong, or immovable: as, to rivet friendship.

The roe of a fish. noun

Bearded wheat. noun

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. noun

A joint between two or more pieces secured by rivets. noun

To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets. transitive verb

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. transitive verb

Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable. transitive verb

A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end. noun

 any fixed point or certain basis noun

A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.

Any fixed point or certain basis.

A light kind of footman's armour.

Words that are spelled similarly to rivet:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word rivet:
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Words that rhyme with rivet:
pivot, civet, give it, small civet, palm civet, large civet, privett, banded palm civet, kivett, rivett, trivett, forgive it, mcdivett, mcdivitt, outlive it, privott, relive it, sieve it.

Adjectives that are often used to describe rivet:
single, hot, last, loose, first, blind, inch, small, cold, large, critical, head, headed, hollow, solid, central, tubular, larger, outer, extreme, explosive, lower, driven, undriven, red, top, flush, extra, additional, soft, defective, awful, finished, heated, upper, golden, alloy, round, tiny, smaller, broken, flat, ordinary, diameter, outermost, proper, standard, middle, tight, wooden, smallest, bottom, alternate, sized, structural, pop, nearest, terminal, shear, strongest, type, sound, celebrated, outside, end, littlest, domed, unique, integral, largest, leaky, verbal.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective rivet:
holes, heads, hole, head, steel, iron, setting, spacing, rounds, heating, shank, heater, buckling, joints, heaters, rods, boy, row, leiser, gun, boys, boxes, bastide, section, vitet, connection, bars, grip, rivets, drivers, tool, making, pin, diameter, seams, plate, rock, hammer, fust, bar, connections, club, joint, efficiency, maker, headers, notch, proportions, tossing, guns, buster, bonding.

Consonant match to rivet:
revert, revet, rivett, rivette, reeve et, rev it, revette.

Words that sound like rivet:
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