magnet
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmæɡnɪt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmæɡnət/
Audio (UK) (file) - Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -ɪt
NounEdit
magnet (plural magnets)
- A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
- (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, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 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!
- (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.
Coordinate termsEdit
- electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)
Derived termsEdit
- bitch magnet
- corrector magnet
- cow magnet
- diamagnet
- electret
- electro-magnet
- fanny magnet
- ferrimagnet
- ferromagnet
- fist magnet
- helimagnet
- magnetarium
- magnet fishing
- magnetic, (obsolete) magnetical
- magnetify
- magnetimeter
- magnetise, magnetize
- magnetism, (obsolete) magnetod
- magnetite
- magnetlike
- magneto
- magnetod
- magnetoionic, magnetionic
- magneton
- magnet therapy
- metamagnet
- micromagnet
- nanomagnet
- neodymium magnet
- nonmagnet
- paramagnet
- photo magnet
- pussy magnet
- rare earth magnet
- single-molecule magnet
- speromagnet
Compound words and expressions
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
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See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
NounEdit
magnet m (indefinite plural magnete, definite singular magneti, definite plural magnetet)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of magnet
Further readingEdit
- “magnet” in Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe at shkenca.org
CebuanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: mag‧net
NounEdit
magnet
CzechEdit
EtymologyEdit
Derived from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις (magnêtis).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
magnet m inan
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
magnet c (singular definite magneten, plural indefinite magneter)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of magnet
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | magnet | magneten | magneter | magneterne |
| genitive | magnets | magnetens | magneters | magneternes |
Further readingEdit
- “magnet” in Den Danske Ordbog
EstonianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
magnet (genitive magneti, partitive magnetit)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of magnet (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | magnet | magnetid |
| accusative | magneti | magnetid |
| genitive | magneti | 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 |
Further readingEdit
- magnet in Sõnaveeb
- magnet in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
- magnet in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
FaroeseEdit
NounEdit
magnet f (genitive singular magnetar, plural magnetir)
DeclensionEdit
| 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 |
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- "magnet" at Sprotin.fo
IndonesianEdit
NounEdit
magnet (first-person possessive magnetku, second-person possessive magnetmu, third-person possessive magnetnya)
- magnet
- Synonyms: sembrani, besi sembrani, batu semberani, batu berani
Further readingEdit
- “magnet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
MalayEdit
NounEdit
magnet (Jawi spelling مݢنيت, plural magnet-magnet, informal 1st possessive magnetku, 2nd possessive magnetmu, 3rd possessive magnetnya)
Further readingEdit
- “magnet” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
magnet
- Alternative form of magnete
Norwegian BokmålEdit
NounEdit
magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magneter, definite plural magnetene)
- a magnet
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “magnet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magnetar, definite plural magnetane)
- a magnet
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “magnet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
magnet m (plural magneți)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of magnet
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) magnet | magnetul | (niște) magneți | magneții |
| genitive/dative | (unui) magnet | magnetului | (unor) magneți | magneților |
| vocative | magnetule | magneților | ||
Further readingEdit
- magnet in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
màgnēt m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀гне̄т)
- a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of magnet
ReferencesEdit
- “magnet” in Hrvatski jezični portal
SlovakEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
magnet m inan (genitive singular magnetu, nominative plural magnety, genitive plural magnetov)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of magnet
Further readingEdit
- magnet in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
SloveneEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
magnẹ̑t m inan
DeclensionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further readingEdit
- “magnet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “the exact route, please”)
NounEdit
magnet c
- a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of magnet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | magnet | magneten | magneter | magneterna |
| Genitive | magnets | magnetens | magneters | magneternas |
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Finnish: magneetti
ReferencesEdit
TagalogEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
magnet
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “magnet”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
magnet m or f (plural magnetau or magnets)
MutationEdit
| 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. | |||
Further readingEdit
- 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