What is another word for rivets?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈɪvɪts] (IPA)

Rivets are fasteners that are used to hold two pieces of metal or other materials together securely. The word "rivet" can be used as a noun or a verb, and there are several synonyms that can be used in place of this word. Some synonyms for the word "rivet" include bolt, stud, nail, screw, tack, and peg. These words all refer to similar fasteners that have different shapes and sizes. No matter which synonym is used, the important thing is to ensure that the fastener is strong enough to hold the materials together securely.

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What are the opposite words for rivets?

Rivets are a type of metal fasteners used to permanently join two pieces of material together. The word "rivets" can be described with antonyms such as detached, unattached, loose, disconnected or unconnected. Unlike rivets, these words imply that the two pieces of material are not fixed together in a permanent manner. They can be separated from each other easily without causing any damage to the materials. Using adhesive tapes or temporary fasteners can provide the same function as rivets without the need for permanent joining. Therefore, the antonyms for rivets are useful when particular assembly situations require a non-permanent solution.

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Usage examples for Rivets

And yet Hamlet's last remark, warning him about his daughter, rivets his attention, and he demands to know what is meant by it; but it is only for an instant, his illusion again diverts him from the matter, and the chance of explanation thus escapes.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann
He and Archelaus had witnessed one such wreck, eight years ago; had waited in broad daylight, helpless, resting on their oars, unable to approach within a cable's length of the rocks, upon which in ten minutes a steel-built five-master, of 1,200 tons, had melted to nothing before their eyes-"the rivets," as Archelaus put it, "flying out of her like shirt buttons."
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch
His eloquence was of that commanding kind that at once rivets the attention of an audience.
"Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution"
L. Carroll Judson

Famous quotes with Rivets

  • Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
    John Burroughs
  • If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
    Ted Danson
  • Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
    John Burroughs
  • The Opera House is a splendid edifice, and I wish to take nothing away from it, but my heart belongs to the Harbour Bridge. It's not as festive, but it is far more dominant – you can see it from every corner of the city, creeping into frame from the oddest angles, like an uncle who wants to get into every snapshot. From a distance it has a kind of gallant restraint, majestic but not assertive, but up close it is all might. It soars above you, so high that you could pass a ten-storey building beneath it, and looks like the heaviest thing on earth. Everything that is in it – the stone blocks in its four towers, the latticework of girders, the metal plates, the six-million rivets (with heads like halved apples) – is the biggest of its type you have ever seen. This is a bridge built by people who have had an Industrial Revolution, people with mountains of coal and ovens in which you could melt down a battleship. The arch alone weighs 30,000 tons. This is a great bridge.
    Bill Bryson
  • With clink of hammers closing rivets up.
    Colley Cibber

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