Clinch vs. Rivet — What's the Difference?

Confirm or settle (a contract or bargain)

A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener. Before being installed, a rivet consists of a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one end.

Grapple at close quarters, especially (of boxers) so as to be too closely engaged for full-arm blows.

A short metal pin or bolt for holding together two plates of metal, its headless end being beaten out or pressed down when in place

Secure (a nail or rivet) by driving the point sideways when it has penetrated.

Join or fasten (plates of metal) with a rivet or rivets

A struggle or scuffle at close quarters

Hold (someone or something) fast so as to make them incapable of movement

A knot used to fasten ropes or angling lines, using a half hitch with the end seized back on its own part.

A metal bolt or pin having a head on one end, inserted through aligned holes in the pieces to be joined and then hammered on the plain end so as to form a second head.

To fix or secure (a nail or bolt, for example) by bending down or flattening the pointed end that protrudes.

To fasten or secure, especially with a rivet or rivets.

To fasten together in this way.

To hammer and bend or flatten the headless end of (a nail or bolt) so as to fasten something.

To settle definitely and conclusively; make final

To fix the attention of (someone)

(Sports) To secure (a divisional championship, for instance) before the end of regular season play by having an insurmountable lead.

To engross or hold (the gaze or attention, for example).

To fasten with a clinch knot.

A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.

To be held together securely.

(figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.

(Sports) To hold a boxing opponent's body with one or both arms to prevent or hinder punches.

(obsolete) A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet. Category:en:Armor

(Slang) To embrace amorously.

(transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.

Something, such as a clamp, that clinches.

(transitive) To install rivets.

The clinched part of a nail, bolt, or rivet.

To command the attention of.

(Sports) An act or instance of clinching in boxing.

To make firm or immovable.

A clinch knot.

A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends.

(Slang) An amorous embrace.

To fasten with a rivet, or with rivets; as, to rivet two pieces of iron.

To clasp; to interlock.

To spread out the end or point of, as of a metallic pin, rod, or bolt, by beating or pressing, so as to form a sort of head.

To make certain; to finalize.

Hence, to fasten firmly; to make firm, strong, or immovable; as, to rivet friendship or affection.

To fasten securely or permanently.

Ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)

To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.

Heavy pin having a head at one end and the other end being hammered flat after being passed through holes in the pieces that are fastened together

To embrace passionately.

Direct one's attention on something;

To hold firmly; to clench.

Fasten with a rivet or rivets

To set closely together; to close tightly.

Hold (someone's attention);

Any of several fastenings.

The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.

(obsolete) A pun.

(nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

A passionate embrace.

The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.

A prison sentence.

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.

To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.

To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.

To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.

A pun.

A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.

(boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily

A small slip noose made with seizing

The flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet

A tight or amorous embrace;

Secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts;

Hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches

Hold in a tight grasp;

Embrace amorously

Flatten the ends (of nails and rivets);

Settle conclusively;