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mag·a·zine
I. \|magə|zēn, |maig-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French, from Old Provençal, from Arabic makhāzin, plural of makhzan storehouse, from khazana to store up
1.
a. : a place where goods or supplies are stored : warehouse
< each hamlet … possesses a magazine inside which families deposit all their provisions — H.T.Norris >
< in the compting rooms and fur magazines of the concern — Walter O'Meara >
b. archaic : a country or district especially rich in natural resources or produce
< set down in a perfect magazine of fruit and vegetables, grain and wine — Leitch Ritchie >
c. archaic : a city viewed as a marketing center
< islands … are now converted into complete magazines for all kinds of European goods — Gentleman's Magazine >
2.
a. : a place to store ammunition: as
(1) : a building in which ammunition and explosives are kept on a military installation
(2) : a compartment of a ship used to store ammunition and explosives
b. archaic : something resembling a place to store ammunition
< stored his magazine of malice with weapons equally sharp — Samuel Johnson >
3.
a. : the contents stored in a magazine: as
(1) : an accumulation of munitions of war
< a large magazine of darts and arrows — Edward Gibbon >
(2) : a stock or store of provisions or goods
< magazine of flesh, milk, butter, and cheese — Daniel Defoe >
b. : something resembling the contents of a magazine
< truth becomes … a new weapon in the magazine of power — R.W.Emerson >
4.
a.
(1) : a periodical that usually contains a miscellaneous collection of articles, stories, poems, and pictures and is directed at the general reading public
(2) : a periodical containing special material directed at a group having a particular hobby, interest, or profession (as education, photography, or medicine) or at a particular age group (as children, teen-agers)
< alumni magazine >
— compare little magazine
b. : a special section of a newspaper usually appearing on Sunday
< seek a much wider audience for the paper … through an enlarged magazine — Bruce Bliven b. 1889 >
5. : a supply chamber: as
a. : a holder that is incorporated in or attachable to a gun and that contains cartridges to be fed into the gun chamber by the operation of the piece — see clip e
b. : a lighttight chamber containing plates, sheet film, or rollable film for use in or on a camera or containing both feed and take-up spools for film for use in or on a motion-picture camera or projector
c. : the chambers to hold circulating matrices in a typesetting machine
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
archaic : to store in or as if in a magazine : store up for use
III. noun
: a radio or television program presenting usually several short segments on a variety of topics |