iron filing
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- noun
- /ˈaɪərn ˈfaɪlɪŋ/
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- In the science experiment, we sprinkled iron filings around the magnet to observe its magnetic field.
- a magnet attracts iron filings
In fact, Ampere and Faraday both looked at the iron filings around a small coil and a bar magnet and found they looked identical.
- In fact, Ampere and Faraday both looked at the iron filings around a small coil and a bar magnet and found they looked identical.
Examples
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So over here we have what I originally thought was a drawing of iron filings around a magnet.
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So you didn't have to actually touch the iron filings in the toy to move them around.
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So obviously it's magnetic, but isn't that strange to have so much iron filings around here?
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So those iron filings grains will all behave differently in the presence of a magnetic field.
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When iron filings are put near a simple bar magnet on Earth, the filings show a pattern.
Academic text (1991) -
Magnets attract iron filings.
Blog text (13) -
The teacher used iron filings to demonstrate how magnets attract metal objects during the lesson.
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By pouring iron filings onto paper and placing a magnet underneath, we could see the magnetic patterns form.
Synonyms
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Small thin pieces of metal or wood made when someone rubs a surface with a rough tool
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Small thin pieces of metal that come off when you scrape metal
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Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'iron' (the metal) + 'filing' (a tiny shaving produced by filing) yields the meaning 'a small shaving of iron'. This material+particle noun-noun pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The noun iron filing comes from the simple action of using a file on iron: tiny metal bits called filings fall away. So iron filing simply means 'a small piece of iron', the little bits often used to show how a magnet works.