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RIVET
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Traducere în limba română
rivet I. substantiv
1. nit.
2. cui de nituit.
3. nituire.
rivet II. verb tranzitiv
1. a nitui, a bate nituri (în).
2. (fig.) a pironi, a ţintui, a fixa; a consolida, a întări.
3. (to/on) a aţinti (privirea) (asupra - cu gen.).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
'Oh!' said he, 'I do think I can fasten the rivet; I like a job of this kind excessively.'—Which you know shewed him to be so very....
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face; I could not keep their lids under control: they would rise, and the irids would fix on him.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
I wish I could conjecture how soon I shall make this rivet quite firm.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
He seems every thing the fondest parent could.... 'Oh!' said he, 'I can fasten the rivet. I like a job of that sort excessively.'
(Emma, de Jane Austen)