Meaning of rivet in English
(Definition of rivet from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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To hear a song again is not only to hear structure but that structure as totally fixed and riveted to larger auditory scaffolding.
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Thus, these events become memorable, that is, available for recollection or riveted to consciousness, by being stitched together with music.
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The performance of this multi-facetted and disparate score is a riveting one.
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As a result of collisions with the ice, a bow plate had buckled and numerous rivets had sheered or loosened, and she was taking water at an alarming rate.
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From the riveting to the mundane, much of adult conversation concerns talk about the absent : for example, scheming in world politics, planning trips abroad, or gossiping with friends.
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All make for riveting if dense reading and it seems invidious to single out any one element from the wealth of information gathered by the different projects.
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The package contained three sticks of gelignite, a fuse detonator and rivets.
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The sound and other technicians were listening, riveted, to that broadcast.
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During my apprenticeship we progressed from using rivets to join plates together to welded sections, built in a shed.
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The specification admits of welded or of riveted construction, or a combination of both, to suit the capacity of individual manufacturers.
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The enormous size of the ship and the terrible extent of the loss of life no doubt riveted public attention.
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However, oil companies are taxed differently from companies that make rivets, for example.
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All the rivets and nails were unused, but they were rusty and mixed in sizes.
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Our eyes have in the past been riveted and are today being riveted on the£rather than on production and techniques of production.
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The surveyor ordered a doubling plate to be riveted over the hole in the hull, and the ship was allowed to go to sea.
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perçin, perçin (çivisi), perçinlemek…
rivet, riveter, clouer…
klinknagel, klinken, kluisteren…
nýt, (s)nýtovat, stát jako přibitý…
nitte, nagle…
paku, memaku, terpaku…
หมุดโลหะ, ตอกด้วยหมุด, ทำให้ติดตรึง…
đinh tán, đóng đinh tán, gắn chặt…
nit, (z)nitować, przykuć…
nit, nita, nita fast…
rivet, memaku dengan rivet, dengan teguh…
die Niete, nieten, fesseln…
nagle, klinke, være som naglet fast…
заклепка, заклепувати, привертати погляд…
заклепка…
