magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɡnɪt/
ipa: /ˈmæɡnət/
note: Indic
ipa: /mæɡnɛʈ/
homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: magnets
Etymology: From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnēs, magnētem (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις [λίθος] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (Magnēsía) (whence came the colonists who founded the city in Lydia). Related to manganese, magnesia and magnesium.
Senses: glosses: A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
examples: text: He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet.
text: Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
text: Again, dude? Man, you just a MAGNET for trouble!
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:
text: […] I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.
ref: 2007 March, J. Michael Fay, “Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma”, in National Geographic, section 47:
text: Regular baths will help keep your dog clean and fresh-smelling. The frequency will depend entirely on your own preferences as well as how much of a mud-magnet your dog is!
ref: 2022, Steve Mann, Easy Peasy Cocker Spaniel:
glosses: An alluring or attractive person or thing.
examples: text: Magnets are thus used to create a package of cryptologic information and bundling^([sic]) it together.
ref: 2019, David Adams, Ann-Kathrin Maier, Big Seven Study (2016): 7 open source Crypto-Messengers to be compared, page 142:
glosses: Ellipsis of magnet link.
Coordinate terms: english: a magnet analog for electric charge
translation: a magnet analog for electric charge
word: electret
Derived terms: word: antiferromagnet
word: corrector magnet
word: cow magnet
word: diamagnet
word: electret
word: electro-magnet
word: fanny magnet
word: ferrimagnet
word: ferromagnet
word: field magnet
word: fist magnet
word: helimagnet
word: magnetarium
word: magnet fishing
word: magnetic
word: magnetical
word: magnetics
word: magnetify
word: magnetimeter
word: magnetise
word: magnetize
word: magnetism
word: magnetod
word: magnetite
word: magnetization
word: magnetless
word: magnetlike
word: magneto
word: magnetod
word: magnetoid
word: magnetoionic
word: magnetionic
word: magnetology
word: magneton
word: magnetorquer
word: magnet play
word: magnetricity
word: magnetron
word: magnet therapy
word: metamagnet
word: micromagnet
word: Mount Magnet
word: nanomagnet
word: neodymium magnet
word: nonmagnet
word: oven magnet
word: paramagnet
word: photo magnet
word: photomagnet
word: pussy magnet
word: rare earth magnet
word: refrigerator magnet
word: single-molecule magnet
word: speromagnet
word: supermagnet
word: welfare magnet
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: babe magnet
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: bar magnet
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: bitch magnet
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: chick magnet
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: electromagnet
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: fridge magnet
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: magnet link
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: magnet school
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: man magnet
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: permanent magnet
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: track magnet
Related terms: Magnesia
magnetic
magnetism
magnetite