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noun

Magazine n.

1.

A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines."

2.

The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

3.

A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

4.

A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.

5.

A country or district especially rich in natural products.

6.

A city viewed as a marketing center.

7.

A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.

8.

A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.

Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine.

Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing.

Magazine stove, 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.

verb

Magazine v. t. (past & past part. magazined; pres. part. magazining) To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

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Etymology of 'Magazine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Magazine" Quotes from Famous Books

... doll. "Beauty!" he ejaculated: "Ha! Yes! A sad business!" and he moved towards the house. Through a French window, under sun-blinds not yet drawn up, he preceded her into the room where he was wont to study The Times and the sheets of an agricultural magazine, with huge illustrations of mangold wurzels, and the like, which provided Holly with material for ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... have found it intolerable and have gone back to Japan, refusing to work under it. There is only one newspaper now published in Korea in the Korean language, and it is edited by a Japanese. An American missionary published a magazine, and attempted to include in it a few mild comments on current events. He was sternly bidden not to attempt it again. Old books published before the Japanese acquired control have been freely destroyed. Thus a large number of school books—not in the least partizan—prepared ...

— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie

... left Richard at liberty to spend the evening with Margaret, and finish his correspondence. Directly after tea he repaired to the studio, and, lighting the German student-lamp, fell to work on the letters. Margaret came in shortly with a magazine, and seated herself near the round table at which he was writing. She had dreaded this evening; it could scarcely pass without some mention of Mr. Taggett, and she had resolved not to speak of him. If Richard questioned her it would be very distressing. How could she tell ...

— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... circuit of the hills, but its exact age is doubtful. It looks like a building of the seventh century A.D. Mr. Rea, superintendent of the Madras Archaeological Survey, in an article published in the MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE MAGAZINE for December 1886, points out that the fact of mortar having been used in its construction throws a doubt upon its being as old as its type of architecture would otherwise make it appear. It is quite possible, however, that the shrine may have been used by a succession of recluses, ...

— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell

... felt certain, and so I warned our friend. But Tom, careless as usual, refused to take any precautions, believing that Yetmore would not venture as long as he—Tom—had, as he expressed it, two such damaging shots in his magazine as the story of the lead boulder and the story of the oil barrel; on both of which subjects he had, with rare discretion, determined to keep silence unless ...

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