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newsmagazine

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news⋅mag⋅a⋅zine

[nooz-mag-uh-zeen, nyooz-]
–noun
1. a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
2. Radio and Television. magazine (def. 5a).

Origin:
1920–25; news + magazine

mag⋅a⋅zine

[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.
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)


mag⋅a⋅zin⋅ish, mag⋅a⋅zin⋅y, adjective
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news·mag·a·zine   (nōōz'māg'ə-zēn', nyōōz'-)   
n.  
  1. A magazine, usually published weekly, containing reports and analyses of current events.

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

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