magazines

Noun

magazine (plural magazines)

1. A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
   1. A radio or television show where each episode comprises a variety of features or segments, akin to the format of a print magazine.
      • After several months' delay, The Emerald City, New York's hour-long gay television show, is on the air. In magazine format, the show offers interviews, gay news and commentary, visits to New York's entertainment spots and gay shows, and a bit of camping from George Sardi.1977 April 16, “Emeralds for TV”, in Gay Community News, page 2
2. An ammunition storehouse.
   • He all thir Ammunition / And feats of War defeats / With plain Heroic magnitude of mind / And celeſtial vigour arm’d, / Thir Armories and Magazins contemns, / Renders them uſeleſs, while / With winged expedition / Swift as the lightning glance he executes / His errand on the wicked, who ſurpris’d /...1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 76–77...

   Synonyms:

   powder magazine

   1. The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.
      • The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.
3. A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
4. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.

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