adj
Meaning 1
Commanding the attention of spectators.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a riveting firework display
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
riveting
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
The act of joining with rivets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 4
A set of rivets; rivets collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures Principles working upon materials, as lathes, boring, planing, which should guide the choice of the means of supply, mortising, riveting, and screw-cutting machines.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
present participle and gerund of rivet
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
capable of arousing and holding the attention
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a fascinating story
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: boeiend — commanding the attention
- French: fascinant — commanding the attention
- Galician: fascinante — commanding the attention
- Galician: engaiolante — commanding the attention
- German: fesselnd — commanding the attention
- German: spannend — commanding the attention
- Italian: avvincente — commanding the attention
- Italian: accattivante — commanding the attention
- Polish: fascynujący — commanding the attention
- Polish: wciągający — commanding the attention
- Polish: interesujący — commanding the attention
- Polish: intrygujący — commanding the attention
- Polish: pasjonujący — commanding the attention
- Spanish: sugestionador — commanding the attention
- Spanish: fascinante — commanding the attention
- Galician: remachado — the act of joining with rivets
- Polish: nitowanie — the act of joining with rivets
- Romanian: nituire — the act of joining with rivets
- Spanish: remachado — the act of joining with rivets
- Galician: remachado — the act of spreading out and clinching the end by beating or pressing
- Polish: nitowanie — the act of spreading out and clinching the end by beating or pressing
- Spanish: remachado — the act of spreading out and clinching the end by beating or pressing