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HK Magazine(finance)
magazine(dictionary)
Mad Magazine(dictionary)
magazine(1)(dictionary)
magazine(2)(dictionary)
magazine(encyclopedia)
little magazine(encyclopedia)
Harper's Magazine(encyclopedia)
Monday Magazine(finance)

magazine(1) (iou)



magazine noun. L16.
[French magasin from Italian magazzino from Arab. mazan, -in storehouse, from azana store up.]
A place where goods are kept in store; a storehouse for merchandise; a warehouse, a depot; transf. a country or district rich in natural products, a centre of commerce. Now rare. L16.
Burke No magazine, from the warehouses of the East India Company to the..baker's shop, possesses the smallest degree of safety.
b. A portable receptacle for articles of value. Now rare. M18.
L. Ritchie The..bourg of Chouze, set down in a perfect magazine of fruit and vegetables.
Military. A building for the storage of arms, ammunition, and provisions for use in war; spec. a store for large quantities of explosives. L16.
N. Nye A barrell of the best powder in the Magazine.
a. Military. The contents of a magazine; a store (of). Formerly also sing. & in pl., stores, provisions, equipment. L16.
Gibbon He used..a large magazine of darts and arrows.
b. gen. A store of provisions, materials, etc. E17.
T. Bewick Each Beaver forms its bed of moss, and each family lays in its magazine of winter provisions.
A book providing information on a specified subject or for a specified group of people. (Freq. as part of the title.) M17-E19.
A periodical publication with articles by various writers; esp. one with stories, articles on general subjects, etc., and usu. illustrated with pictures or photographs. M18.
little magazine: see LITTLE adjective.
Day Lewis Short stories..she had written for parish magazines. A. Judd They emerged with a bundle of old pornographic magazines.
b. More fully magazine programme. A regular television or radio broadcast comprising a variety of entertainment or news items. M20.
Listener The extended Saturday magazine called Sport on 2.
A compartment for holding essential supplies in an apparatus; spec. a chamber in a repeating rifle, machine-gun, etc., containing a supply of cartridges which are fed automatically to the breech; a similar device in a camera, slide projector, etc. M18.
Comb.: magazine cover the (usu. pictorial) cover of a magazine; magazine programme: see sense 4b above; magazine rights: of publishing matter in a magazine; magazine section a section in a newspaper the contents of which resemble a magazine; magazine story: written for publication in a magazine.
magazinedom noun the world or sphere of magazines L19.
magaziner noun (rare) a person who writes articles for magazines M18.
magazinery noun (rare) the profession of a writer for magazines; material of the nature of or suitable for a magazine: M19.
magazinish adjective = magaziny L18.
magazinist noun = magaziner E19.
magaziny adjective of the nature of or suitable for a magazine L19.