Magazine
[mægə'ziːn] or ['mæɡəzin]
Definition
(noun.) a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored.
(noun.) product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object; 'tripped over a pile of magazines'.
(noun.) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required.
(noun.) a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it; 'it takes several years before a magazine starts to break even or make money'.
(noun.) a business firm that publishes magazines; 'he works for a magazine'.
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Definition
(n.) A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
(n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
(n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
(n.) A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
(v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Warehouse, storehouse, ENTREPOT.[2]. Periodical pamphlet.
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Definition
n. a storehouse: a place for military stores: the gunpowder-room in a ship: a pamphlet or small book published from time to time containing compositions on various subjects.—ns. Magazine′-gun or -rī′fle a gun or rifle from which many shots can be fired one after another without reloading.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A receptacle for explosives, literary or mechanical.
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Examples
- In the Mannlicher gun, adopted by the German army, the clip which holds the cartridges is itself inserted into the magazine, along with the cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1845 there appeared in the _Philosophical Magazine_ a description of what was probably the first incandescent electric light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In La Follette's Magazine (Feb. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For example, the printed sheets, as they come from the press, must be folded to the size of the magazine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Dick, take Temistocles and some other men up to the magazine. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Issues of a magazine of thirty-two, forty-eight, or even more pages, are produced in this manner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was probably copied from a newspaper or magazine. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was this weapon which in the Civil War gave proof of the deadly efficacy of the breech-loading magazine gun, and its superiority to the old style military arm. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A spring within the magazine fed the cartridges up into alignment with the barrel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Modern magazine guns permit twenty-five to thirty shots a minute as single loaders, and besides they hold in reserve five cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The 'Saturday Magazine,' 'Chambers' Journal,' the 'Magasin Pittoresque,' in France, and numerous others, owe their existence to this printing machine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The Eliott magazine pump rifle was perfected in Ilion, but afterwards made in New England. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I wrote a little something, in secret, and sent it to a magazine, and it was published in the magazine. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Both of them employed the bolt system as previously embodied in the needle gun, but added to it the magazine principle and changed the method of supplying and feeding the cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the Mannlicher the barrel moves to the front, leaving space for a fresh cartridge to come up from the magazine below. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Many magazines print two colors for covers and inside pages, instead of full four-color printings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I returned with the illustrated papers and magazines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The little book is the only known incursion of its author into literature, if we except the brief articles he has written for technical papers and for the magazines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Newspapers and magazines were full of the remarkable X-ray achievements of surgeons in charge of the various European war hospitals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Munsey, publisher of half a dozen big magazines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- So much for the principal mechanical problems and their solutions, in producing millions of magazines of a high quality each week. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It had a piano, sofas and chairs, and a couple of tables with books and magazines. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The printing of a few thousand copies of one of the great American magazines would not be a difficult feat for any large first-class printing plant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A study of magazines and newspapers would confirm this rather broad generalization. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It always seems curious to watch the satisfaction of some reform magazines when China or Turkey or Persia imitates the constitutional forms of Western democracies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The magazines of the enemy were made by running passage-ways into this clay at places where there were deep cuts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I said 'Magazines and novels. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Sons trained like your Henrique will be grand guardians of your powder-magazines, said Augustine,--so cool and self-possessed! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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