magnetとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmæɡnət/
• Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)

名詞

magnet (複数形 magnets)

1. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
2. (informal, figuratively, preceded by a noun) 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.

派生語

関連する語

等位語

• electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)

参考

• Wikipedia article on magnets
• Wikipedia article on magnetism

アナグラム

• Getman

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: măgnēt', IPA^(key): /maɡˌniːt/

接頭辞

magnet-

1. magnet, magnetic, magnetism

使用する際の注意点

• When combined with a word or another affix which begins with a consonant, this prefix concatenates with -o- (as magneto-).

派生語

参照

• “magneto-” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
• “magneto-, comb. form” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2009]