Attract vs Magnet - What's the difference?
attract | magnet |
To pull toward without touching.
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To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
* (John Milton)
A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
(informal, figuratively, preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.
* 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma , National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
As a verb attract
is to pull toward without touching.As a noun magnet is
magnet.attract
English
Verb
(en verb)- All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.
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- Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.
Synonyms
* allureAntonyms
* repelExternal links
* * *magnet
English
Noun
(wikipedia magnet) (en noun)- He always had a girl on his arm - he's a bit of a babe-magnet .
- ...I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.
