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magazine

[mag-uh-zeen, mag-uh-zeen]

noun

  1. a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.

  2. a room or place for keeping gunpowder and other explosives, as in a fort or on a warship.

  3. a building or place for keeping military stores, as arms, ammunition, or provisions.

  4. a metal receptacle for a number of cartridges, inserted into certain types of automatic weapons and when empty removed and replaced by a full receptacle in order to continue firing.

  5. Also called magazine show.Radio and Television.

    1. Also called newsmagazine.a regularly scheduled news program consisting of several short segments in which various subjects of current interest are examined, usually in greater detail than on a regular newscast.

    2. a program with a varied format that combines interviews, commentary, entertainment, etc.

  6. magazine section.

  7. Photography.cartridge.

  8. a supply chamber, as in a stove.

  9. a storehouse; warehouse.

  10. a collection of war munitions.



magazine

/ ˌæɡəˈː /

noun

  1. a periodical paperback publication containing articles, fiction, photographs, etc

  2. a metal box or drum holding several cartridges used in some kinds of automatic firearms; it is removed and replaced when empty

  3. a building or compartment for storing weapons, explosives, military provisions, etc

  4. a stock of ammunition

  5. a device for continuously recharging a handling system, stove, or boiler with solid fuel

  6. photog another name for cartridge

  7. a rack for automatically feeding a number of slides through a projector

  8. a TV or radio programme made up of a series of short nonfiction items

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • magazinish adjective
  • magaziny adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of magazine1

First recorded in 1575–85; from French magasin, from Italian magazzino “warehouse, depot” from Arabic , plural of makhzan “storehouse”; in English figuratively, as “storehouse of information,” used in book titles (from c1640) and periodical titles (in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1731)
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of magazine1

C16: via French magasin from Italian magazzino, from Arabic , plural of makhzan storehouse, from khazana to store away
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Music magazine Rolling Stone ranked them at 12 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".

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Pupils at an east London primary school have been named "Britain's funniest class" by Beano magazine.

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“He beat me, held me captive and wanted me to be in ménages à trois,” Silva later told People magazine.

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Lunchboxes, magazines, records, action figures and sculptures all but beg you to spend hours upon hours examining each and every one of them.

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Smith has vivid memories of traveling with him, Ashe in his “Citizen of the World” T-shirt with his nose forever buried in a newspaper or magazine.

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