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# magnetised

«magnetised» in Mova's school dictionary: **made into a magnet, so it can pull iron and steel** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form (past of magnetise: magnetise, magnetises, magnetised, magnetising); adjective (magnetised)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Magnetised means made into a magnet, so it can pull iron and steel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnetised/#m1)

2) A magnetised object has its own north and south pole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnetised/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils magnetise a steel needle by stroking it with a magnet many times in the same direction; a magnetised needle floating on water makes a simple compass. Heating or dropping a magnet can make it lose its magnetism (demagnetise).

### examples

- We magnetised a needle by stroking it with a magnet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnetised/#x1)
- The magnetised needle pointed north. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnetised/#x2)
- The paper clip became magnetised and picked up another clip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnetised/#x3)
- A magnetised screwdriver holds screws. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnetised/#x4)
- Iron nails can be magnetised, but copper cannot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnetised/#x5)
- Hitting the magnet hard can stop it being magnetised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnetised/#x6)

### note

British spelling is magnetised (also magnetized); American spelling is magnetized. Only some metals can be magnetised: iron, steel, nickel, cobalt. Aluminium, copper, gold and plastic cannot.

### In the corpora

- [The Chinese discovered that a magnetised needle points north and later used compasses for sailing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/10-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius/13/)
- [A magnetised needle on a leaf floating in water turns to point north; sailors used compasses like this nearly a thousand years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «magnetised» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magnetised/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.