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Magazine   /mˈægəzˌin/   Listen
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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"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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