magnet
/ˈmæɡ.nɪt/
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South Asia/mæɡnɛʈ/
magnet noun: a piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism. Also the ellipsis of magnet link.
Noun
magnet (plural magnets)
- A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
- An alluring or attractive person or thing.
- He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet.
- 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...1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157
- Synonyms:
- lodestone
Also used as
magnet is also the ellipsis of magnet link.
magnet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
magnet in Hindi
- piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- चुंबक cumbak, मक़नातीस maqnātīs
magnet in Tamil
- piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- காந்தம் kāntam
magnet in Marathi
- चुंबक
magnet in Urdu
- piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism
- مَقْناطِیس maqnātīs
More languagesFewer languages
- magnet in Bengali
- অয়স্কান্ত oẏoskanto, চুম্বক cumbok
- magnet in Telugu
- అయస్కాంతము ayaskāntamu, అయస్కాంతం ayaskāntaṁ
- magnet in Malayalam
- കാന്തം, കാന്തകം
- magnet in Kannada
- ಮ್ಯಾಗ್ನೆಟ್
- magnet in Punjabi
- ਚੁੰਬਕ cumbak
- magnet in Gujarati
- ચુંબક
- magnet in Odia
- ଚୁମ୍ବକ
- magnet in Assamese
- চুম্বক sumbok, অয়স্কান্ত oyoskanto
- magnet in Nepali
- चुम्बक, चुंबक
- magnet in Pashto
- مقناطيس meqnātís
- magnet in Tagalog
- batubalani, gayuma
- magnet in Arabic
- مَغْنَاطِيس maḡnāṭīs
- magnet in Malay
- besi berani, besi semberani, magnet
- magnet in Indonesian
- magnet, sembrani, besi berani
- magnet in Thai
- แม่เหล็ก mɛ̂ɛ-lèk
- magnet in Vietnamese
- nam châm
- magnet in Myanmar
- သံလိုက် samluik
Examples of magnet in a sentence
- […] 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:
- 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:
Synonyms of magnet
Forms of magnet
| plural | magnets |
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Origin of magnet
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.
Words formed from magnet
- babe magnet
- bar magnet
- bitch magnet
- chick magnet
- electromagnet
- fridge magnet
- magnet link
- magnet school
- man magnet
- permanent magnet
- track magnet
- antiferromagnet
- cop magnet
- corrector magnet
- cow magnet
- diamagnet
- electret
- electro-magnet
- fanny magnet
- ferrimagnet
- ferromagnet
- field magnet
- fist magnet
- helimagnet
- magnetarium
- magnet fishing
- magnetic
- magnetical
- magnetics
- magnetify
- magnetimeter
- magnetise
- magnetize
- magnetism
- magnetod
- magnetite
- magnetization
- magnetless
- magnetlike
- magneto
- magnetoid
- magnetoionic
- magnetionic
- magnetology
- magneton
- magnetorquer
- magnet play
- magnetricity
- magnetron
- magnet therapy
- metamagnet
- micromagnet
- Mount Magnet
- nanomagnet
- neodymium magnet
- nonmagnet
- oven magnet
- paramagnet
- photo magnet
- photomagnet
Phrases with magnet
Words that rhyme with magnet
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Questions about magnet
- What does magnet mean?
- Magnet means a piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
- What is magnet in Hindi?
- Magnet in Hindi is चुंबक (cumbak), मक़नातीस (maqnātīs). See Magnet meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use magnet in a sentence?
- […] I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.
- What part of speech is magnet?
- Magnet is a noun.
- How do you pronounce magnet?
- Magnet is pronounced /ˈmæɡ.nɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of magnet?
- The plural of magnet is magnets.
Words near magnet in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: magnet (page history and authors); magnet (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); magnet (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); magnet (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); magnet (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); magnet (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); magnet (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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