Magnate vs. Magnet — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Magnate and Magnet
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Magnate
A magnate, from the late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus, "great", is a noble or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities. In reference to the Middle Ages, the term is often used to distinguish higher territorial landowners and warlords, such as counts, earls, dukes, and territorial-princes from the baronage, and in Poland for the richest szlachta.
Magnet
A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, steel, nickel, cobalt, etc.
Magnate
A powerful or influential person, especially in business or industry
An oil magnate.
Magnet
An object that has the property, either natural or induced, of sustaining a magnetic field around it. Simple magnets attract metals such as iron and steel.
Magnate
Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
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Magnet
An electromagnet.
Magnate
A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
Magnet
A person, a place, an object, or a situation that exerts attraction
A village that is a magnet for tourists.
Magnate
(historical) In medieval and early modern Italy, a member of a legally defined category of especially wealthy patrician families, often deprived of the right to political participation by republican governments.
Magnet
A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
Magnate
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.
Magnet
A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.
He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet.
Magnate
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.
Magnet
(internet) magnet link
Magnate
A very wealthy or powerful businessman;
An oil baron
Magnet
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.
Dinocrates began to make the arched roof of the temple of Arsinoë all of magnet, or this loadstone.
Two magnets, heaven and earth, allure to bliss,The larger loadstone that, the nearer this.
Magnet
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
(physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field
Magnet
A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts;
Flowers are an attractor for bees
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