Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To store up or accumulate for future use.
  • To conduct or edit a magazine.
  • noun A receptacle in which anything is stored; a storehouse; a warehouse.
  • noun Specifically
  • noun 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.
  • noun The close room in the hold of a man-of-war where the ammunition is kept.
  • noun The cartridge-chamber of a magazine-rifle.
  • noun The fuel-chamber of a magazine-stove. See below.
  • noun A pamphlet periodically published, containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
  • noun The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
  • noun A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
  • noun A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
  • noun A country or district especially rich in natural products.
  • noun A city viewed as a marketing center.
  • noun A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
  • noun A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
  • noun clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine.
  • noun a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing.
  • noun a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.
  • transitive verb To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French magasin, storehouse, from Old French magazin (possibly via Old Italian magazzino), from Arabic maḫāzin, pl. of maḫzan, from ḫazana, to store, from Aramaic ḥassen, to possess, hoard, derived stem of ḥəsan, to be strong; see ḫsn in Semitic roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle French magasin ("warehouse, store"), from Italian magazzino ("storehouse"), from Arabic مخازن (maxāzin, "storerooms, storehouses"), plural of مخزن (maxzan, "storeroom, storehouse"), from خزن (xazana, "to store, to stock, to lay up").

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    The Guardian World News 2010

  • He produced a dadaist magazine, Mecano, alongside his ­impeccable de Stijl (the Style) ­magazine, which was devoted to a ­theory of ­abstraction.

    The Guardian World News 2010

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    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

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    New Portraits of Robin 2009

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    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • The Robin magazine is in abeyance, and we last saw Tim Drake with a batarang impaled in his chest.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • The Batman and Robin magazine is being created by Quitely and Grant Morrison, a Scottish team who did wonderful things for All-Star Superman -- including delivering it on time, something Frank Miller and Jim Lee had trouble managing with All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The Robin magazine is in abeyance, and we last saw Tim Drake with a batarang impaled in his chest.

    Chuck Dixon on Robin—and Spider-Man 2009

  • Beyond the news space, the term magazine encompasses everything from

    The New York Observer - 2010

  • Mark Ellen tells the story in the latest edition of the Word magazine.

    Hugh muir's diary 2011

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