different between mogul vs magnet

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???(?)l/, /?mo???l/

Etymology 1

Figurative use of Moghul, which originally meant Mongol, or person of Mongolian descent. In this context, it refers to the Mughal Empire (mughal being Persian or Arabic for "Mongol") of the Indian Subcontinent that existed between 1526 and 1857: the early Mughal emperors claimed a heritage dating back to the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. The modern meaning of the word is supposedly derived from the storied riches of the Mughal emperors, which, for example, produced the Taj Mahal.

Noun

mogul (plural moguls)

1. A rich or powerful person; a magnate.

   Synonyms: magnate, tycoon, captain of industry

Translations

Etymology 2

From dialectal German Mugel or from dialectal Norwegian mugje (“heap, mound”).

Noun

mogul (plural moguls)

1. (skiing) A hump or bump on a skiing piste.
2. A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs.
3. A machine that forms shaped candies from syrups or gels.

Derived terms

• mogulist

Translations

Verb

mogul (third-person singular simple present moguls, present participle moguling, simple past and past participle moguled)

1. (skiing) To ski over a course of humps or bumps.

Further reading

• mogul on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mogul, from Persian ????? (mu?ul, “Mongol”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mo?ul]
• Hyphenation: mo?gul
• Rhymes: -ul

Noun

mogul (plural mogulok)

1. (historical) Mughal, Moghul (a member of the Mughal dynasty)
2. mogul (a rich and powerful person)

Declension

Derived terms

• nagymogul

References

Further reading

• mogul in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

From English mogul.

Noun

mogul m (plural moguli)

1. mogul

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnetum (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek ???????? [?????] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of ???????? (Magn?sía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæ?n?t/
• Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)

Noun

magnet (plural magnets)

1. A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
2. (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,

     […] I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.

Derived terms

Related terms

Coordinate terms

• electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on magnets
• Wikipedia article on magnetism

Anagrams

• Getman

Cebuano

Etymology

From English magnet, from Old French magnete, Latin magnetum "lodestone" from Ancient Greek ???????? [?????] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of ???????? (Magn?sía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mag?net

Noun

magnet

1. a magnet

Czech

Etymology

Ancient Greek ???????? (magnêtis)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ma?n?t]

Noun

magnet m

1. magnet

Related terms

• magi?
• magne?ák
• magnetický
• magnetismus
• magnetizovat
• magnetka
• magnetofon
• magnetosféra
• magnetoskop
• magnetovat
• elektromagnet
• elektromagnetický
• elektromagnetismus

Further reading

• magnet in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• magnet in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Middle English

Noun

magnet

1. Alternative form of magnete

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magneter, definite plural magnetene)

1. a magnet

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “magnet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magnetar, definite plural magnetane)

1. a magnet

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “magnet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ne?t/
• Hyphenation: mag?net

Noun

màgn?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

Declension

References

• “magnet” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

magnet c

1. a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)

Declension

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