Magazine /(?)/

Mag·a·zine

Magazine

n.
  1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
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.

Magazine

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Magazined; p. pr. & vb. n. Magazining

  1. To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.