magazine

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.
• noun A television program that presents a variety of topics, usually on current events, in a format that often includes interviews and commentary.
• noun A place where goods are stored, especially a building in a fort or a storeroom on a warship where ammunition is kept.
• noun The contents of a storehouse, especially a stock of ammunition.
• noun A compartment in some types of firearms, often a small detachable box, in which cartridges are held to be fed into the firing chamber.
• noun A compartment in a camera in which rolls or cartridges of film are held for feeding through the exposure mechanism.
• noun Any of various compartments attached to machines, used for storing or supplying necessary material.
• adjective Of or relating to periodicals.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To store up or accumulate for future use.
• To conduct or edit a magazine.
• noun A receptacle in which anything is stored; a storehouse; a warehouse.
• noun Specifically
• noun A strong building, constructed usually of brick or stone, for storing securely quantities of gunpowder or other explosive material, and warlike stores, for either industrial or military purposes.
• noun The close room in the hold of a man-of-war where the ammunition is kept.
• noun The cartridge-chamber of a magazine-rifle.
• noun The fuel-chamber of a magazine-stove. See below.
• noun A pamphlet periodically published, containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
• noun The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
• noun A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
• noun A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
• noun A country or district especially rich in natural products.
• noun A city viewed as a marketing center.
• noun A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
• noun A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
• noun clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine.
• noun a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing.
• noun 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.
• transitive verb To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at fold.
• noun An ammunition storehouse.
• noun Detachable ammunition holder enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed to a gun.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object
• noun a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
• noun a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
• noun a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
• noun a business firm that publishes magazines
• noun a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it