Noun: magnet
| Singular | magnet |
| Plural | magnets |
Sample Sentences
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He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet.
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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. [1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:]
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Again, dude? Man, you just a MAGNET for trouble! [2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:]
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[…] I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season. [2007 March, J. Michael Fay, “Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma”, in National Geographic, section 47:]
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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! [2022, Steve Mann, Easy Peasy Cocker Spaniel:]
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Magnets are thus used to create a package of cryptologic information and bundling^([sic]) it together. [2019, David Adams, Ann-Kathrin Maier, Big Seven Study (2016): 7 open source Crypto-Messengers to be compared, page 142:]
Nouns inflected like magnet
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Old French magnetebor.
3. Pre-Greekbor.?
4. Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
5. Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
6. Latin magnēsbor.
7. Middle English magnete
8. English magnet
9. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
magnete', Latin Nouns '
magnēs'.
Verbs referencing "magnet"
Hungarian Nouns
magnetofon.