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verbdirect one's attention on something
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nounornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
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verbfasten with a rivet or rivets
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nounheavy 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 togethertype of:
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"The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists"verbhold (someone's attention)
Definition that contains rivet
- upset a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- clinch the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet
- clinch flatten the ends (of nails and rivets)
- rivet fasten with a rivet or rivets
- clincher a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets
- riveter a worker who inserts and hammers rivets
- riveter a machine for driving rivets
- genus ligustrum genus of Old World shrubs: privet
- rivetter a machine for driving rivets
- olive family trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac