MAGNETIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does magnetize mean? 

• MAGNETIZE (verb)
  The verb MAGNETIZE has 2 senses:

1. make magnetic

2. attract strongly, as if with a magnet

  Familiarity information: MAGNETIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGNETIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they magnetize    ... he / she / it magnetizes   
Past simple: magnetized   
Past participle: magnetized   
-ing form: magnetizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make magnetic

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

magnetise; magnetize

Context example:

The strong magnet magnetized the iron shavings

Hypernyms (to "magnetize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

demagnetize (make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of))

Derivation:

magnet ((physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field)

magnetization (the physical property of being magnetic)

magnetization (the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently))

magnetization (the extent or degree to which something is magnetized)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Attract strongly, as if with a magnet

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bewitch; magnetise; magnetize; mesmerise; mesmerize; spellbind

Context example:

She magnetized the audience with her tricks

Hypernyms (to "magnetize" is one way to...):

charm; influence; tempt (induce into action by using one's charm)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

magnet ((physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field)

magnetization (the extent or degree to which something is magnetized)

 Context examples 

However, magnetized rocks near the lunar surface do create small, localized spots of magnetic field that extend anywhere from hundreds of yards to hundreds of miles.

(NASA Mission Reveals Origins of Moon's 'Sunburn', NASA)

Metal molecules within the contrast solution are magnetized during the MRI process and enhance the image wherever the molecules of solution bind with the targeted protein.

(Tell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer, NIH)

People are attracted to the warmth and glow of the fire (you), and they are magnetized to it like moths to a flame.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A pulsar is a spinning, magnetized neutron star that sweeps regular pulses of radiation in two symmetrical beams across the cosmos.

(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)

The observations made by Juno's magnetometers will also add to our understanding of Earth's dynamo, the source of our planet's magnetic field, which lies deep beneath a magnetized layer of rocks and iron.

(Juno Peers Inside a Giant, NASA)

Then, they inserted the wire — which is as long as a pinky finger and as thick as a paper clip — into a vein near the pig's ear, according to the study. (This vein in pigs is similar to the veins in a human's arm.) When the magnetized tumor cells floated past the wire, they stuck to it.

(Magnetic Wires May Soon Be Used in Your Veins to Detect Cancer Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Here on Earth, we're largely protected from the damaging effects of the solar wind: Because the solar wind is magnetized, Earth's natural magnetic field deflects the solar wind particles around our planet so that only a small fraction of them reach our planet's atmosphere.

(NASA Mission Reveals Origins of Moon's 'Sunburn', NASA)

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine created a magnetic wire that could, in theory, be inserted into a person's vein, where it could snatch up tumor cells that had been magnetized by special nanoparticles.

(Magnetic Wires May Soon Be Used in Your Veins to Detect Cancer Earlier, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)