The word 'rivet' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb, meaning "to fix something firmly in place", or as a noun, meaning "a metal pin with a head at one end, used for fastening pieces of metal together". Example sentence: The mechanic used a rivet to secure the two parts of the engine together.
In a compression riveter the compression, or squeezing action, on the rivet is obtained from an air piston connected to a cam, wedge, or toggle.
Pilz has developed a multi-camera computer system that monitors the area surrounding robots and adjusts their behaviour accordingly.Called SafetyEYE, the system allows a robot to, say, rivet an aircraft wing without sectioning off the entire area from people.
Remember the way that many British bosses scoffed when Japanese carmakers set up factories in Britain and told their Geordie workers that they had to think as well as rivet, weld and hammer?Moreover, Mr Drucker continued to produce new ideas up until his 90s.
The folding fan is composed of sticks (the outer two called guards) held together at the handle end by a rivet or pin.
Modern instruments are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends and the handle ends; spring shears have a C-shaped spring connection at the handle ends.
The latch needle is composed of a curved hook, a latch, or tumbler, that swings on a rivet just below the hook, and the stem, or butt.
Appointed minister to France (1881 85) by President James Garfield, he drove the ceremonial first rivet into the Statue of Liberty when construction of the monument began in France in 1881.
Pivoted scissors of bronze or iron, connected by a rivet or screw between the handles and blades, were known in ancient Rome and in China, Japan, and Korea.
A Florida preacher with a congregation barely twice the number of the September 11th hijackers can rivet the world — will he do it, or won't he?
From his first speech, Richard's scandalous confessions, at once humiliating and astonishing, rivet our attention like boldfaced headlines: "Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, / Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time / Into this breathing world, scarce half made up," he describes himself, in an amalgam of self-pity and grandiosity.
There might even be space left over for the winsome mouse-size mouse pouch with patent-leather ears and rivet eyes, at M Z Wallace (93 Crosby Street; $45).
