magnet
English edit
Etymology edit
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.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmæɡnət/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmæɡnɪt/
- Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Noun edit
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 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!
- (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 terms edit
- electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)
Derived terms edit
- 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
- refrigerator magnet
- single-molecule magnet
- speromagnet
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Descendants edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
Anagrams edit
Albanian edit
Noun edit
magnet m (plural magnete, definite magneti, definite plural magnetet)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- “magnet”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language][1] (in Albanian), 1980
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
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).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mag‧net
Noun edit
magnet
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Derived from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις (magnêtis).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnet m inan
Declension edit
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Further reading edit
Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnet c (singular definite magneten, plural indefinite magneter)
Declension edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | magnet | magneten | magneter | magneterne |
genitive | magnets | magnetens | magneters | magneternes |
Further reading edit
- “magnet” in Den Danske Ordbog
Estonian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnet (genitive magneti, partitive magnetit)
Declension edit
Declension of magnet (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation) | |||
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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 |
Further reading edit
- 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
Faroese edit
Noun edit
magnet f (genitive singular magnetar, plural magnetir)
Declension edit
Declension of magnet | ||||
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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 |
Synonyms edit
References edit
- "magnet" at Sprotin.fo
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Dutch magneet, from Middle Dutch magneet, from older magnes, from Latin magnēs, from Ancient Greek μαγνήτης λίθος (magnḗtēs líthos).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnet (plural magnet-magnet, first-person possessive magnetku, second-person possessive magnetmu, third-person possessive magnetnya)
- magnet:
- (electromagnetism) a piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
- Synonyms: sembrani, besi sembrani, batu semberani, batu berani
- (electromagnetism) a piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “magnet” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Noun edit
magnet (Jawi spelling مݢنيت, plural magnet-magnet, informal 1st possessive magnetku, 2nd possessive magnetmu, 3rd possessive magnetnya)
Further reading edit
- “magnet” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
magnet
- Alternative form of magnete
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magneter, definite plural magnetene)
- a magnet
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “magnet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magnetar, definite plural magnetane)
- a magnet
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “magnet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnet m (plural magneți)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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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 reading edit
- magnet in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “the exact, indirect route from Greek, please”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
màgnēt m (Cyrillic spelling ма̀гне̄т)
- a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)
Declension edit
References edit
- “magnet” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnet m inan (genitive singular magnetu, nominative plural magnety, genitive plural magnetov)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- “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
Slovene edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnẹ̑t m inan
Declension edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading edit
- “magnet”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “the exact route, please”)
Noun edit
magnet c
- a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)
Declension edit
Declension of magnet | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | magnet | magneten | magneter | magneterna |
Genitive | magnets | magnetens | magneters | magneternas |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Finnish: magneetti
References edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
magnet (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜄ᜔ᜈᜒᜆ᜔)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “magnet”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
magnet m or f (plural magnetau or magnets)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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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 reading edit
- 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