Pillow vs Magnet - What's the difference?
pillow | magnet |
A soft cushion used to support the head in bed.
(geology) A pillow lava.
(engineering) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
(nautical) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
A kind of plain, coarse fustian.
To rest as on a pillow.
* 1942': She had '''pillowed her head on her arm — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 815-6)
A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
(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,
As nouns the difference between pillow and magnet
is that pillow is a soft cushion used to support the head in bed while magnet is magnet.As a verb pillow
is to rest as on a pillow.pillow
English
(wikipedia pillow)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* pillow-biter * pillow block * pillow case * pillow fight * pillowing * pillow lace * pillow lava * pillow sham * pillowyVerb
(en verb)magnet
English
Noun
(wikipedia magnet) (en noun)- He always had a girl on his arm - he's a bit of a babe-magnet .
- ...I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.