riveter
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Noun
riveter (plural riveters)
- A person whose job is to rivet.
- Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of American WWII propaganda.
- 1942, Redd Evans, John Jacob Loeb, “Rosie the Riveter”:
- Ev'ry one stops to admire the scene / Rosie at work on the B-19 / She's never twittery / nervous or jittery / Rosie the riveter
- A machine or tool used to apply rivets.
- Synonym: rivet gun
- Antonym: de-riveter
- The beam couldn't support the weight of the riveter, so the workers were riveting by hand.
Translations
one who rivets
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tool, rivet gun
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
riveter
- (transitive) to rivet
Conjugation
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of riveter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | riveter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rivetant /ʁiv.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | riveté /ʁiv.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/ |
rivettes or rivètes /ʁi.vɛt/ |
rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/ |
rivetons /ʁiv.tɔ̃/ |
rivetez /ʁiv.te/ |
rivettent or rivètent /ʁi.vɛt/ |
| imperfect | rivetais /ʁiv.tɛ/ |
rivetais /ʁiv.tɛ/ |
rivetait /ʁiv.tɛ/ |
rivetions /ʁi.və.tjɔ̃/ |
rivetiez /ʁi.və.tje/ |
rivetaient /ʁiv.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rivetai /ʁiv.te/ |
rivetas /ʁiv.ta/ |
riveta /ʁiv.ta/ |
rivetâmes /ʁiv.tam/ |
rivetâtes /ʁiv.tat/ |
rivetèrent /ʁiv.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | rivetterai or rivèterai /ʁi.vɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁe/ |
rivetteras or rivèteras /ʁi.vɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁa/ |
rivettera or rivètera /ʁi.vɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁa/ |
rivetterons or rivèterons /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɔ̃/ |
rivetterez or rivèterez /ʁi.vɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁe/ |
rivetteront or rivèteront /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rivetterais or rivèterais /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɛ/ |
rivetterais or rivèterais /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɛ/ |
rivetterait or rivèterait /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɛ/ |
rivetterions or rivèterions /ʁi.vɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁi.ve.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rivetteriez or rivèteriez /ʁi.vɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ʁi.ve.tə.ʁje/ |
rivetteraient or rivèteraient /ʁi.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁi.ve.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/ |
rivettes or rivètes /ʁi.vɛt/ |
rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/ |
rivetions /ʁi.və.tjɔ̃/ |
rivetiez /ʁi.və.tje/ |
rivettent or rivètent /ʁi.vɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | rivetasse /ʁiv.tas/ |
rivetasses /ʁiv.tas/ |
rivetât /ʁiv.ta/ |
rivetassions /ʁiv.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
rivetassiez /ʁiv.ta.sje/ |
rivetassent /ʁiv.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rivette or rivète /ʁi.vɛt/ |
— | rivetons /ʁiv.tɔ̃/ |
rivetez /ʁiv.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “riveter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.