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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



... foot of my bed now, I shall have a little breath to front him. I have done my duty by him, not indeed according to his claims, but in proportion to my faculty. Whether I shall ever publish or not (remember) remains to be considered—that is a different side of the subject. If I do, it may be in a magazine—or—but this is another ground. And then, I have in my head to associate with the version, a monodrama of my own,—not a long poem, but a monologue of AEschylus as he sate a blind exile on the flats of Sicily and recounted the past to his own soul, just before ...
— The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

... for that purpose; in another building there are the forges for all the iron-work belonging to the ships; there also are the timber yards, well stored, and places for the workmen and ship-carpenters. They were shown there likewise the magazine of powder, bullet, match, grenadoes, with other fire instruments; also the bake-houses, where they make provision of biscuit for the ships; it is a great room paved with stone, wherein are three ...
— A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke

... him, was decapitated, and the statue of Louis XII. over the entrance gateway was overturned and broken up. Afterward the chateau became the property of the "domaine" and was turned into a mere barracks. The pavilion of Queen Anne became a military magazine, the Tour de l'Observatoire, a powder-magazine, and all the indignities imaginable were heaped ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 (of 10) • Various

... answer to a schoolboy, who writes himself Captain of Giggleswick School (a most imposing title), entreating the youngster not to commence editor of a magazine to be entitled the "Yorkshire Muffin," I think, at seventeen years old; second, to a soldier of the 79th, showing why I cannot oblige him by getting his discharge, and exhorting him rather to bear with ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott

... object. I rapped at the inner door, in which there was a small unglazed aperture cut, about four inches square; and I now, for the first time, perceived that a strong glare of light was cast into the lobby, where I stood, by a large argand with a brilliant reflector, that, like a magazine lantern, had been mortised into the bulkhead, at a height of about two feet above the door in which the spy-hole was cut. My first signal was not attended to: I rapped again, and, looking round, I noticed Mr. Treenail flitting backwards and forwards across the doorway, ...
— Great Sea Stories • Various


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