Download the app
educalingo
Search
I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.
Anita Shreve

Meaning of "riveting" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF RIVETING

riveting  [ˈrɪvətɪŋ] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RIVETING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Riveting is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RIVETING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rivet

A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener. Before being installed, a rivet consists of a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one end. The end opposite the head is called the buck-tail. On installation the rivet is placed in a punched or drilled hole, and the tail is upset, or bucked, so that it expands to about 1.5 times the original shaft diameter, holding the rivet in place. To distinguish between the two ends of the rivet, the original head is called the factory head and the deformed end is called the shop head or buck-tail. Because there is effectively a head on each end of an installed rivet, it can support tension loads; however, it is much more capable of supporting shear loads. Bolts and screws are better suited for tension applications. Fastenings used in traditional wooden boat building, such as copper nails and clinch bolts, work on the same principle as the rivet but were in use long before the term rivet was introduced and, where they are remembered, are usually classified among nails and bolts respectively.

Definition of riveting in the English dictionary

The definition of riveting in the dictionary is absolutely fascinating; enthralling.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RIVETING


balloting
ˈbælətɪŋ
comforting
ˈkʌmfətɪŋ
disquieting
dɪsˈkwaɪətɪŋ
faggoting
ˈfæɡətɪŋ
fagoting
ˈfæɡətɪŋ
Folketing
ˈfəʊlkətɪŋ
nonrioting
ˌnɒnˈraɪətɪŋ
piloting
ˈpaɪlətɪŋ
rioting
ˈraɪətɪŋ
wainscoting
ˈweɪnskətɪŋ
wainscotting
ˈweɪnskətɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RIVETING

riverfront
riverine
riverless
riverlike
riverman
Rivers
riverscape
Riverside
riverwalk
riverward
riverway
riverweed
riverworthiness
riverworthy
rivery
rivet
rivet joint
riveted
riveter
rivetingly

WORDS THAT END LIKE RIVETING

acting
annual general meeting
board meeting
budgeting
buffeting
carpeting
committee meeting
competing
direct marketing
e-marketing
fleeting
general meeting
greeting
marketing
meeting
neuromarketing
sales meeting
sheeting
targeting
telemarketing
ticketing

Synonyms and antonyms of riveting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RIVETING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «riveting» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of riveting

Translation of «riveting» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF RIVETING

Find out the translation of riveting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of riveting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «riveting» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

引人入胜的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fascinante
570 millions of speakers

English

riveting
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

riveting
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التثبيت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

клепки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fascinante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চিত্তাকর্ষক রচনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fascinant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Riveting
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fesselnd
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

わくわくするような
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

관심을 사로잡는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Riveting
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tán đinh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குடையாணி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Riveting
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

perçinleme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

avvincente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nitowania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

клепки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nituire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καθηλωτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klink
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nitning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

medrivende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of riveting

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RIVETING»

The term «riveting» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.137 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Quite widely used
87
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «riveting» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of riveting
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «riveting».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RIVETING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «riveting» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «riveting» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about riveting

EXAMPLES

9 QUOTES WITH «RIVETING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word riveting.
1
Tina Brown
Economics has become as riveting as politics.
2
Bob Edwards
In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.
3
Michael Mandelbaum
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.
4
Paul McGann
I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.
5
Paul McGann
I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
6
Anne Roiphe
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.
7
Anita Shreve
I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.
8
Maggie Stiefvater
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
9
Andrew Sullivan
The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIVETING»

Discover the use of riveting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to riveting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Deadly greed: the riveting true story of the Stuart murder ...
Recounts the Stuart murder case, in which Charles Stuart claimed that his pregnant wife had been shot by a Black man in racially torn Boston, but Stuart himself later became the prime suspect
Joe Sharkey, 1991
2
Self-Piercing Riveting: Properties, Processes and Applications
Riveting machines apply rivets to materials in a wide variety of configurations, from manually operated handheld riveting guns to multi-head automated riveting tools that are electrically, pneumatically, or hydraulically actuated. There are three ...
A Chrysanthou, X Sun, 2014
3
My Life in Middlemarch
The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not.
Rebecca Mead, 2014
4
Riveting Reports (The Effective Writing Series)
Bruce Ross-Larson. preparing to write. Not all people can systematically plan what they are going to write before they start drafting, and many have to start writing just to get a feel for what they're dealing with. There's no reason to deny such ...
Bruce Ross-Larson, 2010
5
Analysis and Design of Machine Elements
RIVETING. In addition to their use for joining aircraft skin sections, rivets are also used for joining spare sections, for holding rib sections in place, for securing fittings to various parts of the aircraft, and for fastening innumerable bracing ...
Vijay Kumar Jadon, Suresh Verma, 2010
6
One Riveting Hour in Heaven: At the Glorious Open Eastern Gate
In a unique and captivating masterpiece, One Riveting Hour in Heaven, the love of God for His people pours out through eloquent words ofhope and power. through many images, heaven's love story is revealed through the voice of the ages ...
Ron W. Greenlaw, 2013
7
Tool and Manufacturing Engineers Handbook Desk Edition:
Automatic drilling and riveting machines are also being used for the application of slug rivets — low-cost, headless slugs of aluminum alloy. The slugs are hydraulically squeezed from both ends, forming leakproof interference fits.
W. H. Cubberly, Ramon Bakerjian, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1989
8
Gcse Design and Technology for Aqa: Resistant Materials
They are cheaper and often less visible than nuts and bolts. Rivets can be used to join materials permanently. There are two methods of riveting to consider. • Plain riveting: a soft steel or aluminium rivet is pushed through a pre-drilled hole in ...
Gerald Eyers, John Huxtable, 2005
9
A French-English military technical writing
edge of a roof at the gable; d'assemblage, rivet connecting two or corresponding parts; bouterolle, snap-head rivet; chasse , riveting set; de clou d'un fer a cheval, ( farr.) horseshoe clinch; ccartement des s, pitch of rivets: enfoncer la tete d'un ...
Cornélis De Witt Willcox, 1903
10
Publications
edge of a roof at the gable; d' assemblage, rivet connecting two or corresponding parts; bouferolle, snap-head rivet; chasse , riveting set; de clou d'un fer d c/ieraZ, (farr.) horseshoe clinch; ecartement des pitch of rivets: enfoncer la fete d'un , to ...
United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division, 1899

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIVETING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term riveting is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The process of launching a nuclear missile is completely riveting
This video is more intense and more suspenseful and got me more scared than any movie I've watched this year. Veritasium dug into the actual process ... «Gizmodo, Jul 15»
2
Jacksonland: Riveting Narrative Details Chief John Ross's Attempts …
You don't need to be a history buff to dive headlong into Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab ... «Indian Country Today Media Network, Jul 15»
3
Riveting search for Samuel Lowe
The personal, yet riveting story, had the audience in the Courtleigh Auditorium, New Kingston, engrossed from start to finish. Finding Samuel Lowe is an intense ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
4
Riveting Reads are a hit with Wiltshire pupils
The annual Riveting Read event came to an end with a special gathering on Thursday(July2), when pupils from Dorcan Academy, Kingsdown School and ... «Swindon Advertiser, Jul 15»
5
Generations Clash In A Riveting 'The How And The Why'
Generations Clash In A Riveting 'The How And The Why' ... Tod Randolph and Bridget Saracino in director Nicole Ricciardi's riveting production of “The How ... «WBUR, Jul 15»
6
'How to Be a Rock Critic': The manic, riveting return of Lester Bangs
“Talk amongst yourselves," says a wild-eyed Lester Bangs as he hammers away at his typewriter, gesturing us into his unkempt apartment, Black Sabbath ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
7
Texas Woman's Riveting Escape From Amish Life, In her Own Words
Emma Gingerich said the past nine years have been the happiest she's been in her entire life. That's all because, she said, she's committed to her dream of ... «ABC News, Jun 15»
8
24 Frames Per Second dance review: Complex ideas and riveting
It is riveting. Others may prefer a straightforward transfer from stage to screen (David Rosetzky's Gaps, choreographed by Stephanie Lake) or Lizzie Thomson's ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
9
BU Professor Lou Ureneck writes riveting book about saving lives …
Many authors have written important books about genocide but Boston University Professor Lou Ureneck, focusing on tragic events almost a century ago, has ... «The Daily News of Newburyport, Jun 15»
10
Theatre review: 'night Mother is angry, sad and riveting
LunaSea Theatre's production of 'night Mother keeps an audience on edge and leaves it in tears. The 80-minute, 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Marsha ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Riveting [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/riveting>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z