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    A lodestone is a piece of iron ore that is already a magnet. It pulls other iron, and a needle will line up with it. Sailors once used it to find north, so the name is lode, “a guide,” plus stone. Today we mostly say magnet. Lodestone sounds old or scientific, and it names the natural stone, not a fridge magnet from a shop. You will still meet it in the history of science, and beside lodestar — a star you steer by — which shares that old “guide” piece.

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組成From Middle English lode (“guide”) + stone. Mariners used it as a guide. See also lodestar.

同家族的字

  • lodestarsame lode “guide”; a lodestar is a star you steer by
  • lodethe first piece; also the mining word for a vein of ore

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

lodestonenoun/ˈloʊdˌstoʊn/

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    obsoleteThe mineral magnetite.

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    Any naturally occurring magnet.

  • 3

    The focus of one's attraction or attention

    • an ideological lodestone

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。