rivet
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈrɪvɪt/
- Specialized
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- The engineer explained how to insert the rivet through the metal plates before hammering it flat.
And the standard size for the rivets for pants is.
- And the standard size for the rivets for pants is.
- Didn't have wings, didn't have rudder, a tail, anything, no rivets, nothing.
- They were using rivets, which is a, a cousin of the nail to create their vessels.
- What human refers to them as human made rivets?
- One thing you might have noticed is that Jake did a little drill out rivet thing here.
- It was absolutely crazy that they had to start with every single piece down to the drill bit to put the rivet hole and start over every tool.
- Then then the whole mailbox right down to the, the, the rivets on the, on the hypothetical, you know, metallic housing is, is rendered.
- So I'm going to go through and put on a bunch of these and I'm also going to put these on the cake because they're going to look like little rivets.
- Then they stuck lentils on each one of the rivets in kind of phases and then flew it and then said, OK, this is the maximum speed we can hit now.
Examples
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It had flush rivets which later became standard in the industry.
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A huge iron boiler, at least ten feet high, rose above the nearby grass, covered with massive rivets and rusted a deep orange.
Fiction book (1999) -
Since you replaced the rivet in her spectacles, not only have they been as good as new, they have been better.
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These rivets have to be completely flush.
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So, we had to drill, and rivet, over six hundred rivets, to put our airplane together.
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The results from these metallurgical tests of Titanic steel and rivets were also input as data for the finite element analysis.
Academic text (2012) -
You could see lubrication leaking out from between the overlapping plates that made up her hide, where the rivets had loosened.
Fiction book (2001) -
He carefully arranged the project so that every rivet was secure, ensuring the structure's stability.
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The builder selected the right type of rivet to connect the steel beams in the construction.
Synonyms
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3.8
A metal pin with a head that holds two parts together with a nut
Compounds
- Specialized
A hand tool that bends and closes the ends of small metal tubes used to join parts
- Jargon
A person who cares too much about small unimportant details in a hobby or project
How Strong
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rivet comes from an old French word rivet meaning 'a small pin used to fasten'. Picture a short metal pin with a head that is hammered flat to hold two pieces tightly together, and you can see why this fastener is called a rivet.