magnet

IPA: mˈægnʌt

A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
(informal, figuratively, often in combination) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.
(Internet) Short for magnet link. [(Internet) A kind of uniform resource identifier based on a hash of a file's contents, typically used in peer-to-peer file sharing networks.]

Examples of "magnet" in Sentences

"This bar is what they call a magnet," said he; "but all the magnetism is in the two ends."
Aztec Middle College Northwest, which she described as a magnet school, for his senior year.
When the North Pole of one magnet is brought close to the South Pole of another magnet, they attract each other.
Finally, I glued the thin magnet on the bottom of my laptop and the other magnetic piece inside one end of the doorstops.
So were parents, particularly those of students in magnet schools admitted by audition or lottery in the School Choice program.
They come out here feeling that they have the advantage of two countries, and wherever their method of living seems the easiest, there the magnet is the strongest.
Though, if the magnet is powerful enough, you might not want to set it on the part of your laptop where the hard drive is (if you use a magnetic-media hard drive), just in case.
Such a magnet, with an armature closely approaching the poles, is called a _closed-circuit magnet_, since the only gap in the iron of the magnetic circuit is that across which the magnet pulls in attracting its armature.
Yet Derman tugs the reader along with limpid writing and curios such as the origin of the word "magnet" (from lodestones found in ancient Magnesia) and the Tetragrammaton (the name of the name of God, the four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH, or Yahweh).