Fetching vs Magnetic - What's the difference?
fetching | magnetic | Related terms |
Attractive; pleasant to regard.
* 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:
*, chapter=6
, title= The act by which something is fetched.
* 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons
of, relating to, operating by, or caused by magnetism
having the properties of a magnet, especially the ability to draw or pull
determined by earth's magnetic fields
having an extraordinary ability to attract
* John Donne
(archaic) Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism.
Fetching is a related term of magnetic.
As adjectives the difference between fetching and magnetic
is that fetching is attractive; pleasant to regard while magnetic is magnetic.As a verb fetching
is .As a noun fetching
is the act by which something is fetched.fetching
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.
Verb
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}
Noun
(en noun)- These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.
magnetic
English
Alternative forms
* magnetical (dated) * magnetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- a magnetic recorder
- magnetic north
- the magnetic meridian
- He has a magnetic personality.
- she that had all magnetic force alone
- a magnetic sleep
