What is "magnetise"

Usage examples of "magnetise".

In one corner, magnetised wire ran smoothly through the Blattnerphone, recording the revelation with mechanical accuracy.

But he stops there and comes back, magnetised, as it were, by that paper.

I began to feel as though everything now happening to me was a repetition of some similar occurrence before--as though on some previous occasion a shower of rain had begun to fall, and the sun had set behind birchtrees, and I had been looking at her, and she had been reading aloud, and I had magnetised her, and she had looked up at me.

One robot held an extensible trellis device terminating in a large magnet It passed its time catching chunks of metal, bringing them to hand with the gadget and attaching them to a magnetised band running down each leg.

He gave me the impression that he was repeating something which he had learned by heart or that, magnetised by some words of his own speech, his mind was slowly circling round and round in the same orbit.

His mind, as if magnetised again by his speech, seemed to circle slowly round and round its new centre.

I said I had heard that watches sometimes got magnetised, and went on in the most erratic manner until the magnetism was counteracted.

For he fancied the owner became a little magnetised himself at night over the genial bowl, and so was irregular in winding his watch.

But no, Delrose will not stir from beside the woman who has magnetised him for years.

Not that a secret instinct magnetised the crowd in the very place where the proof lay buried, but that each day its attention was aroused by a painful spectacle.

All the time that these thoughts kept passing through my head I kept attentively regarding Varenika as she read, until somehow I felt as though I were magnetising her, and that presently she must look at me.