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magazine
[ mag-uh-zeen, mag-uh-zeen ]
noun
- 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.
- a room or place for keeping gunpowder and other explosives, as in a fort or on a warship.
- a building or place for keeping military stores, as arms, ammunition, or provisions.
- 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.
- Also called magazine show. Radio and Television.
- 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.
- a program with a varied format that combines interviews, commentary, entertainment, etc.
- Photography. cartridge ( def 4 ).
- a supply chamber, as in a stove.
- a storehouse; warehouse.
- a collection of war munitions.
magazine
/ ˌæɡəˈː /
noun
- a periodical paperback publication containing articles, fiction, photographs, etc
- a metal box or drum holding several cartridges used in some kinds of automatic firearms; it is removed and replaced when empty
- a building or compartment for storing weapons, explosives, military provisions, etc
- a stock of ammunition
- a device for continuously recharging a handling system, stove, or boiler with solid fuel
- photog another name for cartridge
- a rack for automatically feeding a number of slides through a projector
- a TV or radio programme made up of a series of short nonfiction items
Other Word Forms
- a·i a·y adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of magazine1
Word History and Origins
Origin of magazine1
Example Sentences
The priest, she told the magazine, "grabbed me by the hair, dragged me across the floor for several metres, then punched and kicked me all over, especially in the stomach," she the told magazine.
“I find life interesting. I spy on people. I eavesdrop. I read 20 newspapers a day. I get 100 magazines in the mail still,” he said.
He later tweeted that Kris Jenner didn’t hand out the magazines to the kids, as one X account had asserted, but said “they were just in reach like candy.”
Less than nine months after his elevation to the papacy, Time magazine named Francis its Person of the Year.
The existence of the earlier Signal group was revealed by Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic magazine, who was accidentally included in it.
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