rivet

See also: Rivet

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French rivet (13th century), from a verb river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪvət/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪvət

Noun

rivet (plural rivets)

2 solid rivets

1. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
2. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
3. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet).

Derived terms

• rivet counter
• pop rivet

Translations

cylindrical mechanical fastener

• Arabic: بِرْشَام (ar) m (biršām)
• Bulgarian: нит (bg) m (nit)
• Catalan: rebló (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉚釘／铆钉 (zh) (mǎodīng), 铆钉 (zh) (mǎodīng)

• Czech: nýt (cs) m
• Dutch: klinknagel (nl) m
• Estonian: neet
• Finnish: niitti (fi)
• French: rivet (fr) m
• Georgian: მოქლონი (mokloni)
• German: Niet (de) m
• Greek: πριτσίνι (el) n (pritsíni)
• Hungarian: szegecs (hu)
• Italian: rivetto (it) m, ribattino m
• Japanese: リベット (ribetto)
• Khmer: ដែកគោលមីន (daek koul miin), មីនភ្ជាប់ (miin pcoap)
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• Korean: 리베트 (ribeteu)
• Maori: riweti, rīwiti
• Norwegian: nagle (no) m, klinke, nite
• Persian: پرچ (fa) (parč)
• Polish: nit (pl) m
• Portuguese: rebite (pt) m
• Romanian: nit (ro) n
• Russian: заклёпка (ru) f (zakljópka)
• Scottish Gaelic: calpa m
• Spanish: remache (es) m
• Swedish: nit (sv) c
• Tagalog: rematse, rimatse
• Thai: หมุดย้ำ (mùt yáam)
• Turkish: perçin (tr)
• Vietnamese: ri vê
• Westrobothnian:

Verb

rivet (third-person singular simple present rivets, present participle riveting or rivetting, simple past and past participle riveted or rivetted)

1. (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets. [from early 15th c.]
2. (transitive) To install rivets.
3. (transitive, figurative) To command the attention of. [from c. 1600]
   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6

     The furnishings and other contents of the room it was which riveted his attention. He examined many things minutely — strange tools and weapons, books, paper, clothing — what little had withstood the ravages of time in the humid atmosphere of the jungle coast.

4. (transitive, figurative) To make firm or immovable.

   Terror riveted him to the spot.

Translations

to attach or fasten parts by using rivets

• Bulgarian: зани́твам (zanítvam)
• Catalan: reblar (ca)
• Dutch: popnagelen
• Finnish: niitata (fi)
• French: riveter (fr)
• German: vernieten (de)
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• Hungarian: összeszegecsel
• Italian: chiodare (it)
• Maori: riweti
• Romanian: nitui (ro)
• Russian: клепа́ть (ru) (klepátʹ)
• Spanish: remachar (es)
• Swedish: nita (sv), nita ihop, nagla (sv)

to install rivets

• Bulgarian: зани́твам (zanítvam)
• Catalan: reblar (ca)
• Finnish: niitata (fi), niitittää
• German: nieten (de)
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• Maori: riweti, rīwiti
• Spanish: remachar (es)
• Swedish: nita (sv)

to command the attention of spectators

• Finnish: naulita (fi)
• German: Aufmerksamkeit richten auf, Blick heften auf
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• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} figyelmet magára vonja

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Translations to be checked

• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} perçinlemek (tr), ^{(please verify)} perçinle tutturmak
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See also

• riveters
• riveting
• riveter
• rivets
• riveted

Further reading

• rivet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Vitré, tiver

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ripa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.vɛ/

• Audio:

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Noun

rivet m (plural rivets)

1. rivet (mechanical fastener)

Further reading

• “rivet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) rīvet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of rīvō