riveter

English

A riveter (sense 1)

A riveter (sense 2)

Etymology

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English rivet

English -er

English riveter

From rivet + -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

riveter (plural riveters)

1. (metalworking, construction) A person whose job is to rivet.
   1. (specifically, for solid rivets) A gunner; the member of a riveting team who uses a rivet gun, fitted with a rivet set which matches the shape of the factory head of a solid rivet, to impact that rivet (which is heated if necessary to soften it), while the bucker (or holder-up) holds a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of the rivet, upsetting it to form the field head. If the rivets have to be heated, the team will also include a cook and a catcher; see rivet for more details.

      

      Riveting team working on an aircraft cockpit shell. The riveter on the left operates an air-powered rivet gun, while the bucker on the right holds a bucking bar.

      Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of American WWII propaganda.

      • 1942, Redd Evans, John Jacob Loeb, “Rosie the Riveter”:

        Ev'ry one stops to admire the scene / Rosie at work on the B-19 / She's never twittery / nervous or jittery / Rosie the riveter

2. A tool used to fix rivets.

   Synonym: rivet gun

   Antonym: de-riveter

   The riveter required a compressed air supply.

Translations

one who rivets

• French: riveteur (fr) m
• Polish: nitownik m, nitownica (pl) f
• Spanish: remachador (es) m, remachadora (es) f

tool, rivet gun

• French: (small, handheld type) pince à riveter f
• Polish: nitownik m, nitownica (pl) f
• Spanish: remachadora (es) f

Anagrams

• rerivet, riveret

French

Etymology

From rivet +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

riveter

1. (transitive) to rivet

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of riveter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	riveter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rivetant /ʁiv.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		riveté /ʁiv.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/	rivettes or rivètes /ʁi.vɛt/	rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/	rivetons /ʁiv.tɔ̃/	rivetez /ʁiv.te/	rivettent or rivètent /ʁi.vɛt/
	imperfect	rivetais /ʁiv.tɛ/	rivetais /ʁiv.tɛ/	rivetait /ʁiv.tɛ/	rivetions /ʁi.və.tjɔ̃/	rivetiez /ʁi.və.tje/	rivetaient /ʁiv.tɛ/
	past historic2	rivetai /ʁiv.te/	rivetas /ʁiv.ta/	riveta /ʁiv.ta/	rivetâmes /ʁiv.tam/	rivetâtes /ʁiv.tat/	rivetèrent /ʁiv.tɛʁ/
	future	rivetterai or rivèterai /ʁi.vɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁe/	rivetteras or rivèteras /ʁi.vɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁa/	rivettera or rivètera /ʁi.vɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁa/	rivetterons or rivèterons /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɔ̃/	rivetterez or rivèterez /ʁi.vɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁe/	rivetteront or rivèteront /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rivetterais or rivèterais /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɛ/	rivetterais or rivèterais /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɛ/	rivetterait or rivèterait /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɛ/	rivetterions or rivèterions /ʁi.vɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁi.ve.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	rivetteriez or rivèteriez /ʁi.vɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ʁi.ve.tə.ʁje/	rivetteraient or rivèteraient /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/	rivettes or rivètes /ʁi.vɛt/	rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/	rivetions /ʁi.və.tjɔ̃/	rivetiez /ʁi.və.tje/	rivettent or rivètent /ʁi.vɛt/
	imperfect2	rivetasse /ʁiv.tas/	rivetasses /ʁiv.tas/	rivetât /ʁiv.ta/	rivetassions /ʁiv.ta.sjɔ̃/	rivetassiez /ʁiv.ta.sje/	rivetassent /ʁiv.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/	—	rivetons /ʁiv.tɔ̃/	rivetez /ʁiv.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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