Dictionary Entry
rivet
rivet is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends.
- 2transitive verb
To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
- 3transitive verb
To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head.
- 4transitive verb
Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
- 5noun
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
- 6noun
ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
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- 7verb
direct one's attention on something
"Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
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- 8verb
hold (someone's attention)
"The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists"
- 9verb
fasten with a rivet or rivets
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