01 n. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
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A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
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2.
The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
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3.
A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
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A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
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A country or district especially rich in natural products.
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A city viewed as a marketing center.
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A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
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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.