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magazine
[mag-uh-zeen, mag-uh-zeen]
noun
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.
a room or place for keeping gunpowder and other explosives, as in a fort or on a warship.
a building or place for keeping military stores, as arms, ammunition, or provisions.
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.
Also called magazine show. Radio and Television.
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.
a program with a varied format that combines interviews, commentary, entertainment, etc.
Photography., cartridge.
a supply chamber, as in a stove.
a storehouse; warehouse.
a collection of war munitions.
magazine
/ ˌmæɡəˈziːn /
noun
a periodical paperback publication containing articles, fiction, photographs, etc
a metal box or drum holding several cartridges used in some kinds of automatic firearms; it is removed and replaced when empty
a building or compartment for storing weapons, explosives, military provisions, etc
a stock of ammunition
a device for continuously recharging a handling system, stove, or boiler with solid fuel
photog another name for cartridge
a rack for automatically feeding a number of slides through a projector
a TV or radio programme made up of a series of short nonfiction items
Other Word Forms
- magazinish adjective
- magaziny adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of magazine1
Word History and Origins
Origin of magazine1
Example Sentences
More than 100 of Cheever’s stories appeared in the New Yorker from the 1940s into the 1980s, making him a sort of ambassador for that magazine’s brand of polished, elliptical fiction.
Yet here he was, writing in the left-wing magazine New Statesman, declaring himself a reconverted Christian.
The Nation magazine credits the group with having “built” his “electoral machine.”
"He paid for TV and magazine ads, put victims up in hotels and even created fake virtual offices and fake personas," he said.
One advert for a deodorant called Mum, published in an American magazine in 1938, urged women to "face the truth about underarm perspiration odour".
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