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mag⋅a⋅zine

  [mag-uh-zeen, mag-uh-zeen]
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–noun
1. a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.
2. a room or place for keeping gunpowder and other explosives, as in a fort or on a warship.
3. a building or place for keeping military stores, as arms, ammunition, or provisions.
4. a metal receptacle for a number of cartridges, inserted into certain types of automatic weapons and when empty removed and replaced by a full receptacle in order to continue firing.
5. Also called magazine show. Radio and Television.
a. Also called newsmagazine. a regularly scheduled news program consisting of several short segments in which various subjects of current interest are examined, usually in greater detail than on a regular newscast.
b. a program with a varied format that combines interviews, commentary, entertainment, etc.
6. magazine section.
7. Photography. cartridge (def. 4).
8. a supply chamber, as in a stove.
9. a storehouse; warehouse.
10. a collection of war munitions.
Origin:
1575–85; < F magasin < It magazzino storehouse < Ar makhāzin, pl. of makhzan storehouse; in E figuratively, as “storehouse of information,” used in book titles (from c1640) and periodical titles (in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1731)

Related forms:
mag⋅a⋅zin⋅ish, mag⋅a⋅zin⋅y, adjective
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car⋅tridge

  [kahr-trij]
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1. Also called cartouche. a cylindrical case of pasteboard, metal, or the like, for holding a complete charge of powder, and often also the bullet or the shot for a rifle, machine gun, or other small arm.
2. a case containing any explosive charge, as for blasting.
3. any small container for powder, liquid, or gas, made for ready insertion into some device or mechanism: an ink cartridge for a pen.
4. Also called magazine. Photography. a lightproof metal or plastic container for a roll of film, usually containing both the supply and take-up spools, as well as a pressure plate, for rapid loading without the necessity of threading the film.
5. Audio. pickup (def. 8).
6. a flat, compact container enclosing an endless loop of audiotape, operated by inserting into a slot in a player.
Origin:
1570–80; earlier cartage, cartrage, alter. of cartouche
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mag·a·zine   (māg'ə-zēn', māg'ə-zēn')   
n.  

  1. A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.

  2. A television program that presents a variety of topics, usually on current events, in a format that often includes interviews and commentary.

    1. A place where goods are stored, especially a building in a fort or a storeroom on a warship where ammunition is kept.

    2. The contents of a storehouse, especially a stock of ammunition.

    3. A compartment in some types of firearms, often a small detachable box, in which cartridges are held to be fed into the firing chamber.

    4. A compartment in a camera in which rolls or cartridges of film are held for feeding through the exposure mechanism.

    5. Any of various compartments attached to machines, used for storing or supplying necessary material.

    1. A compartment in some types of firearms, often a small detachable box, in which cartridges are held to be fed into the firing chamber.

    2. A compartment in a camera in which rolls or cartridges of film are held for feeding through the exposure mechanism.

    3. Any of various compartments attached to machines, used for storing or supplying necessary material.

adj.  Of or relating to periodicals: a magazine story.

[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.]
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Word Origin & History

magazine 
1583, "place where goods are stored, esp. military ammunition," from M.Fr. magasin "warehouse, depot, store," from It. magazzino, from Arabic makhazin, pl. of makhzan "storehouse," from khazana "to store up." The original sense is almost obsolete; meaning "periodical journal" dates from the publication of the first one, "Gentleman's Magazine," in 1731, from earlier use of the word for a printed list of military stores and information, or in a fig. sense, from the publication being a "storehouse" of information.

cartridge 
1579, corruption of Fr. cartouche "a full charge for a pistol," from It. cartoccio "roll of paper," an augmentive form of M.L. carta "paper" (see card (n.)). The notion is of a roll of paper containing a charge for a firearm.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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