rivet

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 Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪvət/

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• Rhymes: -ɪvət

rivet (plural rivets)

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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).

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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, figuratively) 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, figuratively) To make firm or immovable.

   Terror riveted him to the spot.

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From Latin ripa.

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.vɛ/

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rivet m (plural rivets)

1. rivet (mechanical fastener)

• “rivet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

rīvet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of rīvō