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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 |