different between cyan vs magnet

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kúanos), possibly a loanword, but more likely from Proto-Indo-European *??ei- (“to shine, white, light”) and cognate with Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “precious stone, copper, blue”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa??æn/, /?sa?.?n/, /sa??æn/

Noun

cyan (countable and uncountable, plural cyans)

1. A vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.

Translations

Adjective

cyan (comparative more cyan, superlative most cyan)

1. Of the colour cyan.

Translations

Derived terms

• haemocyanin, hemocyanin

Related terms

• cyan-
• cyano-

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Further reading

• cyan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -ancy, cany

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?jan]

Noun

cyan m

1. (printing) cyan

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kúanos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sj??/

Noun

cyan m (plural cyans)

1. cyan (color)

See also

Swedish

Adjective

cyan

1. cyan (colour)

Synonyms

• cyanfärgad

Noun

cyan

1. cyan (colour)
2. (colloquial) Almost any chemical compound containing a cyanide group; especially if this compound is in gaseous state.

Synonyms

• (colour): cyanfärg

Derived terms

• cyanblå

See also

• blågrön
• cyankalium
• cyanid
• cyanväte
• turkos

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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