rivet
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 铆钉
- vt.
- 用铆钉固定，敲进去，注目，吸引住
演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Old French rivet (13th century), from the verb Old French river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from Old French rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian.
The sense "kind of footman's armour" is apparently a back-formation from almain rivet, which is apparently derived from the English noun; see that entry for more.
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- A cylindrical mechanical fastener which is supplied with a factory head at one end and is used to attach multiple parts together by passing its bucktail through a hole and upsetting its end to form a field head.
- (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
- (obsolete) A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet