rivet

1. 1.

   ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

   Synonymsstud

   Broaderdecoration
2. 2.

   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

   Broaderpin

   Partsclinch

Other forms of rivet

plural

rivets·

past tense

rivetted·

present participle

rivetting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rivet

What does rivet mean?

rivet means "direct one's attention on something". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rivet?

rivet has 2 syllables: riv-et. The stress falls on "riv". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪvət/.

What is another word for rivet?

Close synonyms include concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rivet a common word?

rivet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.