rivets's Usage Examples:

If you never need the tiles you can always use them as trivets or as coasters to protect your table tops against moisture.

All abutting joints in riveted work are faced to exact lengths and absolutely at right angles to the axis of the piece, and are spliced by scarf plates of proper dimensions adequately secured by rivets.

Even the simple elements of rivets and bolts have produced immense developments since the days when bolts were made by hand, holes cored or hand-drilled, and rivets formed and closed by hand labour.

There is usually fixed above the sucker a short iron valverod, with a device known as a rivet-catcher to prevent damage to the pump by the dropping of rivets from the pump-rods.

For example, always place hot pots and pans on hot pads or trivets, rather than directly on the granite surface.

In miscellaneous metal trades, embracing tinplate goods, wire workers, makers of stoves, grates, ranges and fire-arms, makers of bolts, nuts, rivets, screws and staples, and those occupied in several subsidiary trades, the number of operatives in 1901 amounted to 13,209.

Also check the connecting points of the faceguard and chinstrap, where the rivets or snaps may have come off.

Engines, and iron and steel ships are built at a shipyard 2 on the Fore river, and tubular rivets and studs, gearing, foundry products, and translucent fabrics are among the city's other products.

Thus the typical carbon-content may be taken as about o 05% for rivets and tubes, 0.

This explains the failure of boats built of commercially pure aluminium which have been put together with iron or copper rivets, and the decay of other boats built of a light alloy, in which the alloying metal (copper) has been injudiciously chosen.

in 1900, 2176), practically a suburb of Sterling, with foundries and machine-shops and manufactories of agricultural implements, barbed wire and bolts and rivets.

At the cal culated position of one of the points of contrary flexure all the rivets of the top boom were cut out, and by lowering the end of the girder over the side span one inch, the joint was opened - -- Section of Newark Dyke Bridge.

Nails, rivets, chains, fire-irons, locks and safes are produced.

Synonyms:

plunge, centre, engulf, immerse, pore, take heed, cogitate, center, absorb, think, soak up, concentrate, zoom in, cerebrate, focus, hear, recall, listen, engross, steep,

Antonyms:

blur, skew, issue, give, forget,