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# magazine

«magazine» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thin book with a paper cover, full of stories, articles…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a magazine, magazines)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thin book with a paper cover, full of stories, articles and pictures, that comes out every week or month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#m1)

2) A TV or radio programme with many short reports. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#m2)

3) The part of a gun that holds the bullets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#m3)

4) A store for weapons and explosives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and reading lessons: children's magazines, comics, nature magazines; reading magazines is non-fiction reading. In media lessons: magazines have adverts — not everything in them is true. Phrases: «a weekly/monthly magazine», «a magazine article», «a magazine subscription».

### examples

- I read a magazine about animals every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#x1)
- The waiting room had a pile of old magazines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#x2)
- My poem was printed in the school magazine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#x3)
- She buys a football magazine every week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#x4)
- The magazine has a puzzle page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#x5)
- Some adverts in magazines make things look better than they are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/#x6)

### note

Countable. Stress at the end in UK English: maga-ZINE; in US English often MAG-a-zine. Short form: mag. A magazine is different from a newspaper (which comes daily or weekly, mostly news).

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: in a Leeds corner shop, Auntie Bev holds up a magazine: "SOAP STAR'S SECRET HEARTBREAK!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/46-tabloids-sources-close-to-and-the-photo/3/)
- [And when the law decides a story was a lie, the magazine has to pay.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/6/)
- [Gaming guides, magazines and fact books are real reading too; interest is what keeps a reader going.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/16-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «magazine» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/magazine/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.