magnet
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnēs, from Ancient Greek , either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).
Pronunciation Nounmagnet (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.
- 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.
- French: aimant
- German: Magnet
- Italian: magnete, calamita
- Portuguese: ímã (Brazil), íman (Portugal)
- Russian: магни́т
- Spanish: imán, magnete
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