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Rivet
Definitions
- 1 A surname from French.
- 1 A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.
- 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 wordnet
- 3 Any fixed point or certain basis. figuratively
- 4 ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) wordnet
- 5 A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet. obsolete
"over his rivet he had a garment of white cloth of gold with a redde crosse"
- 1 To attach or fasten parts by using rivets. transitive
- 2 direct one's attention on something wordnet
- 3 To install rivets (see Usage notes). transitive
- 4 hold (someone's attention) wordnet
- 5 To command the attention of. figuratively, transitive
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- 6 fasten with a rivet or rivets wordnet
- 7 To make firm or immovable. figuratively, transitive
"Terror riveted him to the spot."
Etymology
From Old French rivet (13th century), from the verb Old French river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from Old French rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian. The sense "kind of footman's armour" is apparently a back-formation from almain rivet, which is apparently derived from the English noun; see that entry for more.
From Old French rivet (13th century), from the verb Old French river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from Old French rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian. The sense "kind of footman's armour" is apparently a back-formation from almain rivet, which is apparently derived from the English noun; see that entry for more.
Borrowed from French Rivet.
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