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[mag-uh-zeen, mag-uh-zeen] 
–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.
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| 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)
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
car⋅tridge
[kahr-trij] –noun
| 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. |
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| mag·a·zine (māg'ə-zēn', māg'ə-zēn') n.
[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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Magazine
Mag`a*zine"\, n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp. magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or cellar.]1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." --Milton. 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. 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.Magazine
Mag`a*zine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magazined; p. pr. & vb. n. Magazining.] To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.Magazine
Mag`a*zine"\, n. 1. A country or district especially rich in natural products. 2. A city viewed as a marketing center. 3. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus. 4. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : magazine
Spanish:
revista,
German:
das Magazin; Magazin-…,
Japanese:
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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