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Definitions: Magnetize |
MagnetizeVerb1. Make magnetic; "The strong magnet magnetized the iron shavings". 2. Attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "magnetize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Note: Magnetize \Mag"net*ize\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Magnetized; preposition. adverb. Magnetizing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: MagnetizeSynonyms: bewitch (v), magnetise (v), mesmerise (v), mesmerize (v), spellbind (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: demagnetize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Influence | Verb: have -influence; Noun: be -influential; Adjective: carry weight, weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work upon; take root, take hold; strike root in. |
Motive | Influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head, magnetize; lobby. |
Sorcery | Verb: practice sorcery;Noun: cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate; (influence); taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Magnetize |
| English words defined with "magnetize": electromagnetism ♦ Magnetizing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "magnetize": to magnetize. (references) |
Expression using "magnetize": to magnetize. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
magnetize | 13 |
magnetize a screwdriver | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "magnetize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | magnetizoj, bëj për vete (absorb, allure, capture, conciliate, ingratiate, prepossess). (various references) | |
Arabic | فتن (bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, enthralling, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, infatuate, love, mesmerize, ravish, rejoice, seduce, smite, spellbind, tempt, thrill, witch), مغنط, تمغنط, سحر (attractiveness, bedevil, bewitch, bewitchment, catch, charm, conjure, diablerie, enamor, enamour, enchantment, fascinate, fascination, glamor, glamour, incantation, infatuation, loveliness, magic, matinee, mesmerize, necromancy, overlook, pleasantness, prestige, quaintness, ravishment, relish, smite, sorcery, spell, spellbind, temptation, weirdness, witch, witchcraft, witchery, wiz, wizardry, zest), جذب (allure, attract, attraction, catch, charm, engage, entice, hale, haul, press, pull, rivet, strain, tempt). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | силно привличам, хипнотизирам (hypnotize, mesmerize), обайвам (enrapture, fascinate), намагнитизирам (excite), магнетизирам. (various references) | |
Chinese | 磁化 (magnetisation, magnetise, magnetised, magnetization, magnetized, Magnetizing). (various references) | |
Czech | magnetizovat, přitahovat (attract, polarize, seduce), hypnotizovat (hypnotize, mesmerise, mesmerize). (various references) | |
Danish | ristning der bevirker magnetisering (magnetising roasting, roasting to magnetize the ore), at magnetisere (to magnetise, to magnetize). (various references) | |
Dutch | magnetiseren (to magnetise, to magnetize). (various references) | |
Esperanto | magnetigi. (various references) | |
Finnish | magnetoida (to magnetise, to magnetize). (various references) | |
French | magnétiser, se magnétiser, aimanter (to magnetise, to magnetize). (various references) | |
German | magnetisieren (degaussent, demagnetizeent, to magnetise, to magnetize). (various references) | |
Greek | μαγνητίζω (to magnetise, to magnetize). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למ' ט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mágnesez (to magnetize), vonz (attract, draw, drawn, drew, to allure, to attract, to draw, to magnetize). (various references) | |
Italian | magnetizzare (magnetise, to magnetise, to magnetize), calamitare. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 磁化 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じか (a fire raging in one's own home, current value, market value, nowadays, own, personal, price). (various references) | |
Korean | 자 을 게 하십시" (magnetise). (various references) | |
Manx | magnaidaghey (magnetization, magnetizing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agnetizemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | magnetizar (to magnetise, to magnetize), magnetização (intensity of magnetization, magnetisation, magnetization), fascinar (alluring, becharm, bewitch, captivate, charm, entrance examination, fascinate, fascinating, glamor, glamour, lure), cativar (bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, conciliate, enamour, encaenia, enthral, enthrall, win), atrair (allure, appeal, attract, bait, charm, court, decoy, drain away, draw, drew, enlist, entice, fascinate, inveigle, invite, lure, rope, to attract, trepan). (various references) | |
Romanian | magnetiza (charm, hypnotize, pole), hipnotiza (entrance, fascinate, hypnotize, mesmerize), fascina (bewitch, charm, fascinate, glamor, glamour, mesmerize), atrage (allure, appeal, attract, bespeak, call, captivate, commend, conciliate, court, decoy, draw, draw in, enamor, enamour, engage, entice, fetch, fix, interest, inveigle, lure, win). (various references) | |
Russian | намагничивать. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | magnetizovati. (various references) | |
Spanish | magnetizar. (various references) | |
Swedish | magnetisera (to magnetise, to magnetize), trollbinda (enthral, enthrall), göra magnetisk, attrahera (attract, draw, fetch). (various references) | |
Turkish | mıknatıslamak, cezbetmek (attract, bait, beguile, captivate, catch, charm, draw on, engross, fascinate, fetch, hypnotize, lure, prepossess, wile), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take after, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references) | |
Ukranian | гіпнотизувати (hypnotize, mesmerize), намагнічуватися, намагнічувати, приваблювати (appeal, attract, captivate, commend, court, fetch, incline, lure, pull, take, tempt). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "magnetize": magnetized, magnetizer, magnetizers, magnetizes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "magnetize": demagnetize. (additional references) | |
Words containing "magnetize": demagnetized, demagnetizer, demagnetizers, demagnetizes. (additional references) | |
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"Magnetize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: magnetise, Majendie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "magnetize" (pronounced 'Mag"net*ize'): Abolitionize, Acclimatize, Acetize, Achromatize, Actualize, Adonize, Adulterize, Adverbialize, Africanize, Agatize, Agnize, Agrarianize, Albumenize, Alchemize, Alcoholize, Algebraize, Alkalize, Allotropize, Alphabetize, Aluminize, Amalgamize, Americanize, Amortize, Anabaptize, Anachronize, Anaesthetize, Anagrammatize, Analogize, Anarchize, Anathematize, Anatomize, Angelize, Anglicize, Angurize, Animalize, Annalize, Anthropomorphize, Antipathize, Antiquarianize, Aphetize, Aphorize, Apostatize, Apothegmatize, Apotheosize, Appetize, Apprize, Archaize, Argumentize, Aromatize, Arterialize, Artificialize, Artilize, Aryanize, Astatize, Astrologize, Astronomize, Athetize, Atomize, Attitudinize, Australize, Authorize, Azotize, Baize, Balize, Baptize, Bastardize, Battologize, Bestialize, Bichromatize, Biographize, Bituminize, Boucherize, Bowdlerize, Bromize, Burnettize, Cabalize, Calvinize, Canonize, Cantonize, Capitalize, Caponize, Carbolize, Carbonize, Carburize, Cardinalize, Carnalize, Catalogize, Catechize, Categorize, Catheterize, Catholicize, Cauponize, Cauterize, Celestialize, Celticize, Centralize, Chameleonize, Characterize, Cheverliize, Chloridize, Cinchonize, Civilize, Cize, Climatize, Cocainize, Cognize, Collodionize, Colloquialize, Congenialize, Connaturalize, Consonantize, Conventionalize, Cowardize, Creaturize, Cross-fertilize, Cuckoldize, Curarize, Cutinize, Dastardize, Debituminize, Decarbonize, Decarburize, Decardinalize, Decentralize, Dechristianize, Decimalize, Decitizenize, Decivilize, Decolorize, Defeudalize, Defibrinize, Deflectionize, Dehumanize, Demagnetize, Dematerialize, Demephitize, Demesmerize, Demobilize, Democratize, Demonetize, Demonize, Demoralize, Denarcotize, Denationalize, Denaturalize, Denize, Denizenize, Dentize, Deodorize, Deoxidize, Deoxygenize, Depauperize, Depolarize, Deprovincialize, Deputize, Dereligionize, Desilverize, Despotize, Desulphurize, Desynonymize, Dethronize, Detonize, Devilize, Devitalize, Devocalize, Devulgarize, Diabolize, Dialogize, Diamondize, Diazotize, Digitize, Diphthongalize, Diphthongize, Disauthorize, Disillusionize, Disnaturalize, Disorganize, Dispauperize, Disprize, Disrealize, Disseize, Dissocialize, Dissyllabize, Disthronize, Disutilize, Divinize, Dolomize, Doxologize, Dramatize, Ebonize, Effeminize, Egotize, Egyptize, Electrize, Electrotonize, Elegize, Elenchize, Embastardize, Emblematiccize, Emblematize, Emblemize, Emotionalize, Emphasize, Empyreumatize, Encarnalize, Endenize, Enigmatize, Enthronize, Entomologize, Epicurize, Epigrammatize, Epilogize, Epiloguize, Epistolize, Epitomize, Equalize, Eternalize, Eternize, Etherealize, Etherize, Euhemerize, Eulogize, Euphemize, Euphonize, Euphuize, Euripize, Europeanize, Excrementize, Experimentalize, Externalize, Fabulize, Factorize, Familiarize, Fanaticize, Faradize, Federalize, Femalize, Feminize, fertilize, Feudalize, Fluidize, Focalize, Foreprize, Foreseize, formularize, Formulize, Fortunize, Frize, Functionalize, Gallicize, Gallize, galvanize, Gargalize, Gargarize, Genealogize, Geologize, Geometrize, Giantize, Gluttonize, Goblinize, Gorgonize, gormandize, Gospelize, Gothicize, Grammaticize, Grangerize, Gutturalize, Gutturize, Harlotize, Hazardize, Heathenize, Heavenize, Hepatize, Herbarize, Hispanicize, Historicize, Historize, Histrionize, homologize, hospitalize, Hostilize, Humorize, Hydrogenize, hypnotize, Hypostasize, hypostatize, Iambize, Iconize, Idiotize, illegalize, Illegitimatize, Illiberalize, Illuminize, Imbastardize, immaterialize, Immethodize, immobilize, Impatronize, Imperialize, Improvisatize, Indenize, individualize, Infamize, Inoxidize, Intellectualize, Interjectionalize, internationalize, Inthronize, iodize, ionize, Iridize, Islamize, Isochronize, Italianize, italicize, itemize, -ize, Jacobinize, Jasperize, jeopardize, Kaolinize, Kruppize, Kyanize, labialize, Laconize, Latibulize, legalize, legitimatize, legitimize, Leperize, Lethargize, Letheonize, liberalize, life-size, lionize, liquidize, Listerize, literalize, localize, macadamize, Macarize, maize, Malleableize, Mammonize, Mangonize, marbleize, Margaryize, Martialize, martyrize, Matronize, maximize, Mechanicalize, mechanize, Mediatize, memorialize, memorize, mercerize, mesmerize, metabolize, Metallize, Metamorphize, Meteorize, Methodize, Mineralogize, Miniardize, minimize, Minionize, Miraculize, Misavize, Mischaracterize, Miscognize, Misprize, mobilize, Modelize, modernize, monetize, mongrelize, monopolize, Mortalize, Motorize, Municipalize, Muscularize, Mysterize, Mythologize, Naphthalize, Narcotize, nationalize, Naturize, Nebulize, Nectarize, Neologize, Neoterize, Nesslerize, Neutralize, Nitrogenize, Nomadize, Nominalize, Nounize, Obectize, Obelize. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-m-n-t-z" | |
-1 letter: geminate. | |
-2 letters: agenize, etamine, gatemen, matinee, meeting, mintage, teaming, teeming, tegmina, tzigane. | |
-3 letters: agnize, eating, emetin, enigma, etamin, gamete, gamine, ingate, inmate, magnet, manege, mating, mazing, meanie, menage, metage, meting, negate, tamein, taming, teeing, tegmen, teniae, zeatin. | |
-4 letters: agene, agent, ament, amine, anime, azine, eaten, enate, enema, entia, gamin, genet, genie, giant, image, maize, mange, matin, meant, menta, minae, mizen, nizam, tenge, tenia, tinea, tinge. | |
-5 letters: agee, agin, amen, amie, amin, ante, anti, emit, etna, gaen, gain, gait, game, gane, gate, gaze, geez, gene, gent, geta, gien, gnat, item, mage, magi, main, mane, mate, maze, mean, meat, meet, meta, mete, meze, mien, mina, mine, mint, mite, name, nazi, neat, neem, nema, nite, tain, tame, tang, team, teem, teen, time, tine, ting, zein, zeta, zing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-m-n-t-z" | |
+1 letter: magnetized, magnetizer, magnetizes. | |
+2 letters: demagnetize, fragmentize, magnetizers. | |
+3 letters: demagnetized, demagnetizer, demagnetizes, fragmentized, fragmentizes, magnetizable. | |
+4 letters: demagnetizers, demagnetizing, emblematizing. | |
+5 letters: aggrandizement, geometrization, gewurztraminer, gonadectomized, parameterizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 67 6E 65 74 69 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- --. -. . - .. --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100111 01101110 01100101 01110100 01101001 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a g n e t i z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0067 006E 0065 0074 0069 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)476773807186759271 |
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