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UK
/lˈəʊdstəʊn/
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[ US /ˈɫoʊdˌstoʊn/ ]
[ US /ˈɫoʊdˌstoʊn/ ]
NOUN
- a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically
How To Use lodestone In A Sentence
- Lodestones are simply naturally occurring magnets composed of the magnetic mineral magnetite.
- Little recognized in this country is that the scope and pervasiveness of American power is now the lodestone for every other country in the pursuit of its own interests.
- I eat so much, suck with lodestone, why is one also sucked?
- Insurance company west to acidulousness sanfoin, cheiranthus your isomorphous claudius, fireclay nematocera, get candour mandamus and see turbulent lodestone on your siliciouss and overpoweringly. Rational Review
- She's a kind of lodestone that draws out the male animal. Times, Sunday Times
- HOLC is too complicated to explain, and doesn't speak directly to the liquidity problem to make it some kind of lodestone for fighting the Paulson / Bush bill, which essentially gets around the unconstitutionality issue by pressuring congress to give up their constitutional mandate by handing it over, no questions asked, to the executive. Corrente
- For example, there is an interesting rock called lodestone.
- It is seen as a lodestone by the new urbanists, who think places should be for people rather than cars and megastores. Times, Sunday Times
- Why did lodestone have the power to attract certain metals?
- A person who is unaware of the phenomenon of magnetism could be fooled by a magician who presents lodestone as a ‘magic rock,’ perhaps as a formerly ordinary rock made magical by saying the word abracadabra.