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

1. noun. 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.
2. transitive verb. To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive verb. Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.
5. noun. 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
6. noun. ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

   Synonyms: stud

7. verb. direct one's attention on something

   "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

   Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore

8. verb. hold (someone's attention)

   "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists"

9. verb. fasten with a rivet or rivets

Synonyms

stud, center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rivet:

tirve, tiver

Common word forms

rivets, riveted, riveter, riveting, rivetted, rivetter, rivetless, rivetting

Words from these letters

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