Crossword clues for magnetize
magnetize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magnetize \Mag"net*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magnetized; prep. & adv. Magnetizing.] [Cf. F. magn['e]tiser.]
To communicate magnetic properties to; to make magnetic; as, to magnetize a needle.
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To attract as a magnet attracts, or like a magnet; to move; to influence.
Fascinated, magnetized, as it were, by his character.
--Motley. To bring under the influence of animal magnetism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1799, from magnet + -ize. Related: Magnetized; magnetizing. From 1785 in now-obsolete sense of "to mesmerize."
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive physics English) to make magnetic 2 (context transitive English) to attract, allure or entice (someone)
WordNet
v. make magnetic; "The strong magnet magnetized the iron shavings" [syn: magnetise] [ant: demagnetize, demagnetize]
attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks" [syn: mesmerize, mesmerise, magnetise, bewitch, spellbind]
Usage examples of "magnetize".
Lucy calls hotels where she carries her own bags, uses her magnetized room key to let herself into the gym and fills her own ice bucket, and where the housekeepers are shocked when left a tip.
He blinds them with his long, filthy thumbnail, and his magnetized hands crush their windpipes.
Moreover, this must hold good equally for the fields of magnetic force generated by naturally magnetic or artificially magnetized pieces of iron.
Other bottles filled with magnetized water tightly corked up were laid in divergent rows with their necks turned outwards.
When submitted to close investigation, it was, however, found that they could only be induced when the subjects knew they were being magnetized, and that they differed according as they were conducted in public or in private.
The wearing of belts around the body, and rings round the fingers, will also, sometimes, induce a degree of hypnosis, if the subject has been told that they have previously been magnetized or are electric.
Nantes, who was magnetized by a commercial traveler, remained for two days in a state of lethargy, and for three hours Dr.
It looked like every place else: a tenuous patch of hot magnetized plasma tens of thousands of kilometers deep.
Images blossomed into existence on the ceiling above Fisher, the egg rotating in the magnetized plasma of its cage.
Hercules, and that it consisted of a bar of magnetized iron floating upon a piece of wood in a cup.
The diverse demands and unforeseen surges of the day, in tandem with tonight's elevated blood alcohol levels, have driven her circuitry into a sputtering staticky condition near brownout or worse, she's phasing eccentrically in and out, her attention temporarily and fiercely magnetized by the oddest fragments of isolated fact, so while Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to -- working hard now to amuse her audience -- stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.
The Curie law, according to which the coefficient of magnetization of a body feebly magnetized varies in inverse ratio to the absolute temperature, is a remarkably simple law.
He took his clipboard from the magnetized strip which held it to the center of the dash just above the driveshaft hump, flipped past the blank citation form all cops kept as a shield over the hot-sheet (no need for the general public to be gawking at the license plate numbers the cops were particularly interested in while the cop to whom the sheet belonged was grabbing a hamburger or taking an express dump at a handy filling station), and ran his thumbnail down the fist.
You and I know the mountain is only magnetic iron oxide, or iron oxide magnetized by the earth itself.
Activating the levitator, she changed the bed and sponge-bathed the patient while he hung suspended in the field, the atoms of his body temporarily magnetized.