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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

... of the chapters have previously appeared in the "Craftsman Magazine" and "Country Life in America," and are here reproduced by the courtesy ...

— The Bird Study Book • Thomas Gilbert Pearson

... a few shillings with me, and I'd been so much amused that I felt like being generous. Luckily, Mother couldn't see me, and scold! I took half a dozen coins—shillings and sixpences—and wrapping them hurriedly up in half the cover torn off a magazine I was reading, I aimed the little parcel to fall at the ...

— Lady Betty Across the Water • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... kindly tell him, through your magazine, how the children may help abate the terrible cruelty? What action do you suggest for them? He has interested a number of lads in the subject, but does not know how to put forth effort—when the discovery is made that the ...

— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various

... as good as jokes, though you mayn't quite preceive the point. Mark the varieties of lounge in which the young men indulge — now a stroll, then a look in, then a ramble, and presently a strut. When George, Prince of Wales, was twenty, I have read in an old Magazine, "the Prince's lounge" was a peculiar manner of walking which the young bucks imitated. At Windsor George III. had a cat's path — a sly early walk which the good old king took in the grey morning before his household was astir. What was the Corinthian path here recorded? ...

— Some Roundabout Papers • W. M. Thackeray

... the cannon, rushed for the magazine to blow up the building. They had agreed that if all hope were lost he should do so, but he was killed on his way by a bullet, and the others ...

— The Texan Scouts - A Story of the Alamo and Goliad • Joseph A. Altsheler

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