magazine+of+arms

  • 11Magazine (artillery) — Not to be confused with Magazine (firearms). Colonial Williamsburg magazine of the eighteenth century in Virginia, USA. Magazine is the name for an item or place within which ammunition is stored. It is taken from the Arabic word makahazin… …

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  • 12magazine — magazinish, magaziny, adj. /mag euh zeen , mag euh zeen /, n. 1. a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings,… …

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  • 13magazine — Take Take, v. t. [imp. {Took} (t[oo^]k); p. p. {Taken} (t[=a]k n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Taking}.] [Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. t[=e]kan to touch; of uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 14magazine — noun 1》 a periodical publication containing articles and illustrations.     ↘a regular television or radio programme comprising a variety of items. 2》 a chamber for holding a supply of cartridges to be fed automatically to the breech of a gun. 3》 …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 15Arms — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Arms >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 arm arm arms Sgm: N 1 weapon weapon deadly weapon Sgm: N 1 armament armament armaments armature Sgm: N 1 panoply panoply stand of arms …

    English dictionary for students

  • 16Arms Crisis — The Arms Crisis or Arms Trial (Irish: Géarchéim na nAirm or Triail na nAirm ) was a political scandal in the Republic of Ireland in 1970, when two cabinet ministers mdash; Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney mdash; were sacked for allegedly… …

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  • 17magazine — [16] The original meaning of magazine, now disused, was ‘storehouse’. The word comes, via French magasin and Italian magazzino, from Arabic makhāzin, the plural of makhzan ‘store house’ (a derivative of the verb khazana ‘store’). It was soon… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 18magazine — /mægəˈzin / (say maguh zeen) noun 1. a periodical publication, usually bound and with a paper cover, containing miscellaneous articles or pieces, in prose or verse, often with illustrations. 2. a program on radio or television, usually… …

  • 19magazine — [16] The original meaning of magazine, now disused, was ‘storehouse’. The word comes, via French magasin and Italian magazzino, from Arabic makhāzin, the plural of makhzan ‘store house’ (a derivative of the verb khazana ‘store’). It was soon… …

    Word origins

  • 20magazine — mag•a•zine [[t]ˌmæg əˈzin, ˈmæg əˌzin[/t]] n. 1) a periodical publication, usu. paperbound, that typically contains essays, stories, poems, and often illustrations 2) sbz a television program that combines interviews, commentary, and… …

    From formal English to slang