See also: magnet- and Magnet

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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 colonist who founded the city in Lydia). Related to manganese, magnesia and magnesium.

 
A stack of ferrite magnets

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magnet (plural magnets)

  1. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
  2. (informal, figuratively, often in combination) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.
    He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet.
    • 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
      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.
    • 2007 March, J. Michael Fay, “Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma”, in National Geographic, section 47:
      [] I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.
    • 2022, Steve Mann, Easy Peasy Cocker Spaniel:
      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!
  3. (Internet) Short for magnet link.
    • 2019, David Adams, Ann-Kathrin Maier, Big Seven Study (2016): 7 open source Crypto-Messengers to be compared, page 142:
      Magnets are thus used to create a package of cryptologic information and bundling[sic] it together.

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  • electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)

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  • Cebuano: magnet
  • ? Indonesian: magnet
  • ? Malay: magnet
  • Tagalog: magnet
  • Welsh: magnet

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magnet m (plural magnete, definite magneti, definite plural magnetet)

  1. magnet

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  • “magnet”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980

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Borrowed from English magnet, from Old French magnete, Latin magnetum "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 colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

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  • Hyphenation: mag‧net

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magnet

  1. magnet

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Derived from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις (magnêtis).

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magnet m inan

  1. magnet

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  • magnet in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • magnet in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • magnet in Internetová jazyková příručka

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magnet c (singular definite magneten, plural indefinite magneter)

  1. magnet

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magnet (genitive magneti, partitive magnetit)

  1. magnet

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Declension of magnet (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative magnet magnetid
accusative nom.
gen. magneti
genitive magnetite
partitive magnetit magneteid
illative magnetisse magnetitesse
magneteisse
inessive magnetis magnetites
magneteis
elative magnetist magnetitest
magneteist
allative magnetile magnetitele
magneteile
adessive magnetil magnetitel
magneteil
ablative magnetilt magnetitelt
magneteilt
translative magnetiks magnetiteks
magneteiks
terminative magnetini magnetiteni
essive magnetina magnetitena
abessive magnetita magnetiteta
comitative magnetiga magnetitega

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  • magnet in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • magnet”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • magnet”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018

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magnet f (genitive singular magnetar, plural magnetir)

  1. magnet

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Declension of magnet
f2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative magnet magnetin magnetir magnetirnar
accusative magnet magnetina magnetir magnetirnar
dative magnet magnetini magnetum magnetunum
genitive magnetar magnetarinnar magneta magnetanna

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Borrowed from Dutch magneet, from Middle Dutch magneet, from older magnes, from Latin magnēs, from Ancient Greek μαγνήτης λίθος (magnḗtēs líthos).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmak.nɛt/
  • Rhymes: -nɛt
  • Hyphenation: mag‧net

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magnet (plural magnet-magnet, first-person possessive magnetku, second-person possessive magnetmu, third-person possessive magnetnya)

  1. magnet:
    1. (electromagnetism) a piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
      Synonyms: sembrani, besi sembrani, batu semberani, batu berani

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magnet (Jawi spelling مݢنيت, plural magnet-magnet, informal 1st possessive magnetku, 2nd possessive magnetmu, 3rd possessive magnetnya)

  1. magnet

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magnet

  1. Alternative form of magnete

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magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magneter, definite plural magnetene)

  1. a magnet

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magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magnetar, definite plural magnetane)

  1. a magnet

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Borrowed from German Magnet.

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magnet m (plural magneți)

  1. magnet

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  • IPA(key): /mǎɡneːt/
  • Hyphenation: mag‧net

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màgnēt m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀гне̄т)

  1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

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  • magnet” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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magnet m inan (genitive singular magnetu, nominative plural magnety, genitive plural magnetov)

  1. magnet

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  • magnet”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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magnẹ̑t m inan

  1. magnet

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  • magnet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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magnet c

  1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

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Declension of magnet 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative magnet magneten magneter magneterna
Genitive magnets magnetens magneters magneternas

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Borrowed from English magnet.

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  • Hyphenation: mag‧net
  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɡnet/, [ˈmaɡ.nɛt]

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magnet (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜄ᜔ᜈᜒᜆ᜔)

  1. magnet
    Synonym: balani

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  • magnet”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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Borrowed from English magnet.

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magnet m or f (plural magnetau or magnets)

  1. magnet

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
magnet fagnet unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “magnet”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies