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Magazine

noun

A periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it. Synonym: mag.

Product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object.

A business firm that publishes magazines. Synonym: magazine publisher.

A light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required. Synonym: cartridge.

A storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored. Synonyms: powder magazine, powder store.

A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun. Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, clip.

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"Magazine" Quotes from Famous Books

... now, and he was quietly cheerful. With something akin to pleasure that the struggle was over, and that events were out of his hands for the time being, he settled down in his chair and picked up a magazine. ...

— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams

... round him for his hat. On a table behind him a monthly magazine lay open, exhibiting one of those melancholy modern "illustrations" which present the English art of our day in its laziest and lowest state of degradation. A vacuous young giant, in flowing trousers, stood in a garden, and stared at a plump young giantess with enormous ...

— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins

... Mr. Coleridge's poems were first published with some of C. Lamb's at Bristol in 1797. The remarkable words on the title-page have been aptly cited in the New Monthly Magazine for February, 1835, p. 198.: "Duplex nobis vinculum, et amicitiae et similium junctarumque Camcoenarum,—quod utinam neque mors solvat, neque temporis longinquitas." And even so it came to pass after thirty seven years more had passed ...

— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge

... through that door there—following into the Board Room with his implacable scent the clue of blood. Thorpe's fancy pictured this detective as a momentarily actual presence—tall, lean, cold-eyed, mysteriously calm and fatally wise, the omniscient terror of the magazine short-stories. ...

— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic

... artificial stimulus, and proceeded solely from the promptings of a nature superlative in every sense, was shown in the winter of 1757, when the barracks at Fort Edward were consumed by a fire which threatened and almost reached the powder magazine. Seeing the blaze from his aerie on the island, Putnam attacked the fire as he always attacked the enemy, with impetuosity. He at once took the forefront of danger, nearest to the powder magazine, and, mounted ...

— "Old Put" The Patriot • Frederick A. Ober

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