magazine

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.
2. n. A television program that presents a variety of topics, usually on current events, in a format that often includes interviews and commentary.
3. n. A place where goods are stored, especially a building in a fort or a storeroom on a warship where ammunition is kept.
4. n. The contents of a storehouse, especially a stock of ammunition.
5. n. A compartment in some types of firearms, often a small detachable box, in which cartridges are held to be fed into the firing chamber.
6. n. A compartment in a camera in which rolls or cartridges of film are held for feeding through the exposure mechanism.
7. n. Any of various compartments attached to machines, used for storing or supplying necessary material.
8. adj. Of or relating to periodicals: a magazine story.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A receptacle in which anything is stored; a storehouse; a warehouse.
2. n. Specifically.
3. n. A strong building, constructed usually of brick or stone, for storing securely quantities of gunpowder or other explosive material, and warlike stores, for either industrial or military purposes.
4. n. The close room in the hold of a man-of-war where the ammunition is kept.
5. n. The cartridge-chamber of a magazine-rifle.
6. n. The fuel-chamber of a magazine-stove. See below.
7. n. A pamphlet periodically published, containing miscellaneous papers or compositions. The earliest publication of this kind in England was the “Gentleman's Magazine,” which was first issued in 1731 by Edward Cave, under the pseudonym of “Sylvanus Urban,” and is still continued, though now entirely changed In character.
8. To store up or accumulate for future use.
9. To conduct or edit a magazine.

Wiktionary

1. n. A periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at fold.
2. n. An ammunition storehouse.
3. n. Detachable ammunition holder enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed to a gun.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
2. n. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
3. n. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
4. n. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
5. n. A country or district especially rich in natural products.
6. n. A city viewed as a marketing center.
7. n. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
8. n. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
9. v. To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object
2. n. a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
3. n. a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
4. n. a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
5. n. a business firm that publishes magazines
6. n. a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it