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1. A publication issued at regular intervals, usually weekly or monthly: A magazine contains articles, stories, photographs, advertisements, and other features, with a page size that is usually smaller than that of a newspaper but larger than that of a book
2. The original Arabic word was makhAzin (plural of makhzan, meaning "storehouse, warehouse, depot, store".
3. A detachable container for cartridges or bullets: A magazine can be quickly inserted or removed from a weapon.
4. A structure on land or a part of a ship where weapons, ammunition, explosives, and other military equipment or supplies are stored: During the war, the ship blew up when a shell hit the magazine killing all aboard.
5. A container designed to hold a number of photographic slides and feed them automatically through a projector: Joe had a number of magazines with slides from all their trips to Canada.
6. A space or compartment in a camera from which film is loaded without exposing it to light: Jack was careful when he put in a new roll of film into the magazine before he shut the lid.
7. A device or container attached to a machine that holds or supplies necessary material: Mr. Smith looked for a magazine that would keep his his assortment of goodss safe and dry.
8. A television or radio program made up of an assortment of short factual items: The morning magazine on Lynn's television came every morning from Monday to Friday and presented news from all over the world.
9. Etymology: "a place for storing goods, especially military ammunition," from Middle French magasin, "warehouse, depot, store"; from Italian magazzino, which came from Arabic (as stated in the word-entry area above) from the verb, khazana, "to store up".
The English word still may be used in this sense to describe a warehouse; especially, one in which explosives and munitions are stored; however, in modern English the word is now most commonly used to describe weekly, monthly, or quarterly periodicals that may contain (or store) a multitude of stories, articles, or other writings from the earlier use of the word for a "printed list of military stores and information", or in a figurative sense, from the publication being a "storehouse" of information.
4. A structure on land or a part of a ship where weapons, ammunition, explosives, and other military equipment or supplies are stored: During the war, the ship blew up when a shell hit the magazine killing all aboard.
5. A container designed to hold a number of photographic slides and feed them automatically through a projector: Joe had a number of magazines with slides from all their trips to Canada.
6. A space or compartment in a camera from which film is loaded without exposing it to light: Jack was careful when he put in a new roll of film into the magazine before he shut the lid.
7. A device or container attached to a machine that holds or supplies necessary material: Mr. Smith looked for a magazine that would keep his his assortment of goodss safe and dry.
8. A television or radio program made up of an assortment of short factual items: The morning magazine on Lynn's television came every morning from Monday to Friday and presented news from all over the world.
9. Etymology: "a place for storing goods, especially military ammunition," from Middle French magasin, "warehouse, depot, store"; from Italian magazzino, which came from Arabic (as stated in the word-entry area above) from the verb, khazana, "to store up".
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English Words from Arabic origins
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