0 a metal pin used to fasten flat pieces of metal or other thick materials such as leather
1 to fasten parts together with a rivet:
It was an amazing film - I was absolutely riveted.
His eyes were riveted on the television.
He pulled out a gun and I was riveted to the spot (= so frightened that I could not move).
2 a metal pin used to fasten together flat pieces of metal or other thick materials such as leather
3 If something rivets someone, it attracts and keeps someone's attention:
Her performance riveted the audience.
To hear a song again is not only to hear structure but that structure as totally fixed and riveted to larger auditory scaffolding.
Thus, these events become memorable, that is, available for recollection or riveted to consciousness, by being stitched together with music.
The performance of this multi-facetted and disparate score is a riveting one.
As a result of collisions with the ice, a bow plate had buckled and numerous rivets had sheered or loosened, and she was taking water at an alarming rate.
From the riveting to the mundane, much of adult conversation concerns talk about the absent : for example, scheming in world politics, planning trips abroad, or gossiping with friends.
All make for riveting if dense reading and it seems invidious to single out any one element from the wealth of information gathered by the different projects.
The package contained three sticks of gelignite, a fuse detonator and rivets.
The sound and other technicians were listening, riveted, to that broadcast.
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