Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 4
Magazine (n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
Magazine (n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
Magazine (n.) A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
Magazine (n.) A country or district especially rich in natural products.
Magazine (n.) A city viewed as a marketing center.
Magazine (n.) A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
Magazine (n.) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
Magazine dress, Clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine.
Magazine gun, A portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing.
Magazine stove, A stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.
Magazine (n.) A periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it; "it takes several years before a magazine starts to break even or make money" [syn: magazine, mag].
Magazine (n.) Product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object; "tripped over a pile of magazines."
Magazine (n.) A business firm that publishes magazines; "he works for a magazine" [syn: magazine, magazine publisher].
Magazine (n.) A light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required [syn: magazine, cartridge].
Magazine (n.) A storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored [syn: magazine, powder store, powder magazine].
Magazine (n.) A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun [syn: cartridge holder, cartridge clip, clip, magazine].
Magazine, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 915
Housing Units (2000): 394
Land area (2000): 1.664934 sq. miles (4.312159 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.664934 sq. miles (4.312159 sq. km)
FIPS code: 43310
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.151775 N, 93.807814 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72943
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Magazine (n.) [ C ] (Book) (A2) (Informal mag) 雜誌，期刊 A type of thin book with large pages and a paper cover that contains articles and photographs and is published every week or month.
// She has written articles for several women's magazines.
// A glossy magazine.
// Men's mags.
// A magazine rack.
Magazine (n.) [ C ] (Guns) （槍的）彈倉，彈盒；軍火庫，軍械庫 A part of a gun in which cartridges are stored.
Magazined (imp. & p. p.) of Magazine.
Magazining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Magazine.
Magazine (v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.
Magaziner (n.) 雜誌撰稿人 One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] -- Goldsmith.
Magazining (n.) The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine.
Magazinist (n.) 雜誌撰稿人 One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] -- Goldsmith.
Magbote (n.) See Maegbote.
Magdala (a.) Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.
Magdalen (n.) A reformed prostitute.
Magdaleon (n.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.
Magdeburg (n.) A city of Saxony.
Mage (n.) A magician.
Magellanic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator.
Magenta (n.) (Chem.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsin, fuchsine, roseine, etc.
Magenta (n.) The purplish-red color of magenta.
Compare: Colorful
Colorful (a.) Having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled].
Syn: colourful.
Colorful (a.) Striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque].
Colorful (a.) Having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color (predicate).
Magenta (a.) Of deep purplish red.
Magenta (n.) A primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta.
Magenta (n.) A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I [syn: Magenta, Battle of Magenta].
Magged (a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace.
Maggiore (a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.
Maggot (n.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.
Maggot (n.) A whim; an odd fancy.
Maggotiness (n.) State of being maggoty.
Maggotish (a.) Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.
Maggot-pie (n.) A magpie.
Maggoty (a.) Infested with maggots.
Maggoty (a.) Full of whims; capricious.
Maghreb (n.) 馬格里布Maghreb, (Arabic: “West”) also spelled Maghrib, region of North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The Africa Minor of the ancients, it at one time included Moorish Spain and now comprises essentially the Atlas Mountains and the coastal plain of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The weather of the Maghreb is characterized by prevailing westerly winds, which drop most of their moisture on the northern slopes and coastal plain, leaving little for the southern slopes, which maintain desert scrub fading into true desert in the Sahara to the south.
Maghet (n.) A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds.
Magi (n. pl.) A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.
Magian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Magi.
Magian (n.) One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion.
Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc.
Magic (a.) Alt. of Magical.
Magical (a.) Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.
Magical (a.) Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done by, or seemingly done by, enchantment or sorcery. Hence: Seemingly requiring more than human power; imposing or startling in performance; producing effects which seem supernatural or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle.
Magically (adv.) In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.
Magician (n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
Magilp (n.) Alt. of Magilph.
Magilph (n.) See Megilp.
Magister (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
Magisterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic.
Magisterial (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2.
Magisteriality (n.) Magisterialness; authoritativeness.
Magisterially (adv.) In a magisterial manner.
Magisterialness (n.) The quality or state of being magisterial.
Magistery (n.) Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.
Magistery (n.) A magisterial injunction.
Magistery (n.) A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth.
Magistracies (n. pl. ) of Magistracy.
Magistracy (n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate.
Magistracy (n.) The collective body of magistrates.
Magistral (a.) Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.
Magistral (a.) Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup.
Magistral (a.) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.
Magistral (n.) A sovereign medicine or remedy.
Magistral (n.) A magistral line.
Magistral (n.) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.
-ties (n. pl. ) of Magistrality.
Magistrality (n.) Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism.
Magistrally (adv.) In a magistral manner.
Magistrate (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. "All Christian rulers and magistrates." -- Book of Com. Prayer.
Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate. -- Blackstone. Magistratic
Magistrate (n.) A lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses).
Magistrate, () A public civil officer invested with authority. The Hebrew shophetim, or judges, were magistrates having authority in the land (Deut. 1:16, 17). In Judg. 18:7 the word "magistrate" (A.V.) is rendered in the Revised Version "possessing authority", i.e., having power to do them harm by invasion. In the time of Ezra (9:2) and Nehemiah (2:16; 4:14; 13:11) the Jewish magistrates were called _seganim_, properly meaning "nobles." In the New Testament the Greek word _archon_, rendered "magistrate" (Luke 12:58; Titus 3:1), means one first in power, and hence a prince, as in Matt. 20:25, 1 Cor. 2:6, 8. This term is used of the Messiah, "Prince of the kings of the earth" (Rev. 1:5). In Acts 16:20, 22, 35, 36, 38, the Greek term _strategos_, rendered "magistrate," properly signifies the leader of an army, a general, one having military authority. The _strategoi_ were the duumviri, the two praetors appointed to preside over the administration of justice in the colonies of the Romans. They were attended by the sergeants (properly lictors or "rod bearers").
Magistrate, () mun. law. A public civil officer, invested with some part of the legislative, executive, or judicial power given by the constitution. In a narrower sense this term includes only inferior judicial officers, as ustices of the peace.
Magistrate, () The president of the United States is the chief magistrate of this nation; the governors are the chief magistrates of their respective states.
Magistrate, () It is the duty of all magistrates to exercise the power, vested in them for the good of the people, according to law, and with zeal and fidelity. A neglect on the part of a magistrate to exercise the functions of his office, when required by law, is a misdemeanor. Vide 15 Vin. Ab. 144; Ayl. Pand. tit. 22; Dig. 30, 16, 57; Merl. Rep. h.t.; 13 Pick. R. 523.
Magistratic (a.) Alt. of Magistratical.
Magistratical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate. -- Jer. Taylor.
Magistrature (n.) Magistracy. [Obs.]
Magistrature (n.) The position of magistrate [syn: magistracy, magistrature].
Magma (n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste. -- Ure.
Magma (n.) (Med.) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.
Magma (n.) (Med.) A salve or confection of thick consistency. -- Dunglison.
Magma (n.) (Geol.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
Magma (n.) (Geol.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock.
Magma (n.) (Chem.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry. Magna Carta
Magma (n.) Molten rock in the earth's crust.
Magma, () A program used for heavy duty algebraic computation in many branches of mathematics. Magma, developed by John Cannon and associates at the University of Sydney, succeeded Cayley. It runs at several hundred sites. (2000-12-21)
Magna Charta () The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.
Magna Charta () Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges.
Magnality (n.) A great act or event; a great attainment.
Magnanimity (n.) The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.
Magnanimous (a.) 寬大的；有雅量的；表現高尚品德的 Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.
Be magnanimous in the enterprise. -- Shak.
To give a kingdom hath been thought Greater and nobler done, and to lay down Far more magnanimous than to assume. -- Milton.
Magnanimous (a.) Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish.
Both strived for death; magnanimous debate. -- Stirling.
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity. -- Washington.
Magnanimous (a.) Noble and generous in spirit; "a greathearted general"; "a magnanimous conqueror" [syn: {greathearted}, {magnanimous}].
Magnanimous (a.) Generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies" [syn: {big}, {large}, {magnanimous}].
Magnanimous (a.) (Formal) （對敵人或失敗者）寬宏大量的，大度的Very kind and generous towards an enemy or someone you have defeated.
// The team's manager was magnanimous in victory, and praised the losing team.
Magnanimously (adv.) 崇高地，高尚地；大度寬宏地 In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
Magnanimously (adv.) In a magnanimous manner; "magnanimously, he forgave all those who had harmed him".
Magnase black (Paint.) A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body.
Magnate (n.) （實業界的）巨擘，大王；要人，權貴 [C] A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere; -- used mostly of prominent business executives; as, an industrial magnate. -- Macaulay.
Magnate (n.) One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.
Magnes (n.) Magnet. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Magnesia (n.) 【化】氧化鎂 A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide ({MgO}), and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See {Magnesium}.
{Magnesia alba} [L.] (Med. Chem.), A bulky white amorphous substance, consisting of a hydrous basic carbonate of magnesium, and used as a mild cathartic.
Magnesia (n.) A white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium [syn: {periclase}, {magnesia}, {magnesium oxide}].
Magnesian (a.) 【化】氧化鎂的；鎂的 Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.
{Magnesian limestone}. (Min.) See {Dolomite}.
Magnesic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide.
Magnesite (n.) Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.
Magnesium (n.) A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75.
Magnet (n.) The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet.
Magnet (n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet.
Magnet (n.) [ C ] (Object) 磁體；磁鐵，磁石 An object that is able both to attract iron and steel objects and also push them away.
Magnet (n.) [ C ] (Attraction) 有吸引力的人（或地方、物） A person, place, or thing that other people feel strongly attracted to.
// The United States has always acted as a magnet for people seeking fame and fortune.
Magnetic (a.) Alt. of Magnetical.
Magnetic (a.) (Object) (C1) 磁的，有磁性的；磁化的 With the power of a magnet.
Magnetic (a.) (Attractive) (C1) 有吸引力的，有魅力的 Used to describe someone whose personality attracts a lot of people.
Magnetical (a.) Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.
Magnetical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.
Magnetical (a.) Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the magnetic metals.
Magnetical (a.) Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment.
She that had all magnetic force alone. -- Donne.
Magnetical (a.) Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism. [Archaic]
Magnetic amplitude, attraction, dip, induction, etc. See under Amplitude, Attraction, etc.
Magnetic battery, A combination of bar or horseshoe magnets with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with great power.
Magnetic compensator, A contrivance connected with a ship's compass for compensating or neutralizing the effect of the iron of the ship upon the needle.
Magnetic curves, Curves indicating lines of magnetic force, as in the arrangement of iron filings between the poles of a powerful magnet.
Magnetic elements. (Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable or becoming magnetic.
Magnetic elements. (Physics) In respect to terrestrial magnetism, the declination, inclination, and intensity.
Magnetic elements. See under Element.
Magnetic fluid, The hypothetical fluid whose existence was formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of magnetism; -- no longer considered a meaningful concept.
Magnetic iron, or Magnetic iron ore. (Min.) Same as Magnetite.
Magnetic needle, A slender bar of steel, magnetized and suspended at its center on a sharp-pointed pivot, or by a delicate fiber, so that it may take freely the direction of the magnetic meridian. It constitutes the essential part of a compass, such as the mariner's and the surveyor's.
Magnetic poles, The two points in the opposite polar regions of the earth at which the direction of the dipping needle is vertical.
Magnetic pyrites. See Pyrrhotite.
Magnetic storm (Terrestrial Physics), A disturbance of the earth's magnetic force characterized by great and sudden changes.
Magnetic tape (Electronics), A ribbon of plastic material to which is affixed a thin layer of powder of a material which can be magnetized, such as ferrite. Such tapes are used in various electronic devices to record fluctuating voltages, which can be used to represent sounds, images, or binary data. Devices such as audio casette recorders, videocasette recorders, and computer data storage devices use magnetic tape as an inexpensive medium to store data. Different magnetically susceptible materials are used in such tapes.
Magnetic telegraph, A telegraph acting by means of a magnet. See Telegraph.
Magnetic (n.) A magnet. [Obs.]
As the magnetic hardest iron draws. -- Milton.
Magnetic (n.) Any metal, as iron,
nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the
loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a
magnetic meridian.
Compare: Attraction
Attraction (n.) (Physics) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
Note: Attraction is exerted at both sensible and insensible distances, and is variously denominated according to its qualities or phenomena. Under attraction at sensible distances, there are, -- (1.)
Attraction of gravitation, Which acts at all distances throughout the universe, with a force proportional directly to the product of the masses of the bodies and inversely to the square of their distances apart. (2.)
Magnetic, diamagnetic, and electrical attraction, Each of which is limited in its sensible range and is polar in its action, a property dependent on the quality or condition of matter, and not on its quantity. Under attraction at insensible distances, there are, -- (1.)
Adhesive attraction, Attraction between surfaces of sensible extent, or by the medium of an intervening substance. (2.)
Cohesive attraction, Attraction between ultimate particles, whether like or unlike, and causing simply an aggregation or a union of those particles, as in the absorption of gases by charcoal, or of oxygen by spongy platinum, or the process of solidification or crystallization. The power in adhesive attraction is strictly the same as that of cohesion. (3.)
Capillary attraction, Attraction causing a liquid to rise, in capillary tubes or interstices, above its level outside, as in very small glass tubes, or a sponge, or any porous substance, when one end is inserted in the liquid.
It is a special case of cohesive attraction. (4.)
Chemical attraction, or affinity, That peculiar force which causes elementary atoms, or groups of atoms, to unite to form molecules.
Attraction (n.) 吸引；吸引力[U]；吸引物；喜聞樂見的事物 [C]；【物】引力 [U] The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction. -- Newton.
Attraction (n.) The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.
Attraction (n.) That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.
Syn: Allurement; enticement; charm.
Attraction (n.) The force by which one object attracts another [syn: attraction, attractive force] [ant: repulsion, repulsive force].
Attraction (n.) An entertainment that is offered to the public.
Attraction (n.) The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him" [syn: attraction, attractiveness].
Attraction (n.) A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees" [syn: attraction, attractor, attracter, attractive feature, magnet].
Attraction (n.) An entertainer who attracts large audiences; "he was the biggest drawing card they had" [syn: drawing card, draw, attraction, attractor, attracter].
Magnetic (a.) Of or relating to or caused by magnetism; "magnetic forces."
Magnetic (a.) Having the properties of a magnet; i.e. of attracting iron or steel; "the hard disk is covered with a thin coat of magnetic material" [syn: magnetic, magnetized, magnetised] [ant: antimagnetic].
Magnetic (a.) Capable of being magnetized [ant: nonmagnetic].
Magnetic (a.) Determined by earth's magnetic fields; "magnetic north"; "the needle of a magnetic compass points to the magnetic north pole" [ant: geographic, geographical].
Magnetic (a.) Possessing an extraordinary ability to attract; "a charismatic leader"; "a magnetic personality" [syn: charismatic, magnetic].
Magnetically (adv.) 帶磁性地；有吸引力地 By or as by, magnetism.
Magnetically (adv.) by the use of magnetism; "magnetically contaminated material."
Magnetically (adv.) As if by magnetism; "he was magnetically attracted to her."
Magneticalness (n.) Quality of being magnetic.
Magnetician (n.) One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.
Magneticness (n.) Magneticalness. [Obs.]
Magnetics (n.) The science of magnetism.
Magnetics (n.) The branch of science that studies magnetism [syn: magnetism, magnetics].