magnetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA: /ˈmæɡnɪt/, /ˈmæɡnət/
• (Indic) IPA: /mæɡnɛʈ/
• Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)
• 韻: -ɪt

名詞

magnet (plural magnets)

1. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
2. (informal, figuratively, often in combination) An alluring or attractive person or thing.

   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.

   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:

     Again, dude? Man, you just a MAGNET for trouble!

   • 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!

3. (Internet) Ellipsis of 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 it together.

使用する際の注意点

Sense 2 is always denoted by the preceding noun.

等位語

• electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Cebuano: magnet
• →? Indonesian: magnet
• →? Malay: magnet
• → Tagalog: magnet
• → Welsh: magnet

参考

• magnet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Getman