different between butter vs magazine

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b??t?r, IPA^(key): /?b?t??/
  • • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/, [?b?t??]
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/, [?b???]
    • (Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/, [?b???], /?b?t?/
  • Rhymes: -?t?(?)
• (Northern England, Midlands) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/
  • Rhymes: -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: but?ter

Etymology 1

From Middle English buter, butter, from Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buter?, from Latin b?t?rum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (boút?ron, “cow cheese”), compound of ???? (boûs, “ox, cow”) and ????? (t?rós, “cheese”).

Noun

butter (usually uncountable, plural butters)

1. A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
2. Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).

3. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.

4. (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.

Derived terms

Related terms

• butterfly
• butter-ham

Translations

Verb

butter (third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered)

1. (transitive) To spread butter on.

2. To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
3. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• butyraceous
• ghee

Etymology 2

butt +? -er

Noun

butter (plural butters)

1. Someone who butts, or who butts in.
   • 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)

     […] these animals lacked self-correcting mechanisms of the kind seen in modern head-butters such as goats and big-horn sheep that would have kept the tremendous forces aligned with the rest of the skeleton.

Etymology 3

Derived from the aviation slang term

Adjective

butter (comparative more butter, superlative most butter)

1. Very smooth, very soft

   That landing was total butter!

French

Etymology

From butte.

Verb

butter

1. to heap

Conjugation

Further reading

• “butter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

butter

1. inflection of buttern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Middle English

Noun

butter

1. Alternative form of buter

Swedish

Adjective

butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)

1. grumpy

Declension

Anagrams

• brutet, buttre

West Flemish

Noun

butter ?

1. Alternative form of beuter

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French magasin (“warehouse, store”), from Italian magazzino (“storehouse”), ultimately from Arabic ????????? pl (ma??zin), plural of ???????? (ma?zan, “storeroom, storehouse”), noun of place from ??????? (?azana, “to store, to stock, to lay up”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mæ???zi?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mæ???zin/, /?mæ??zin/
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Hyphenation: mag?a?zine

Noun

magazine (plural magazines)

1. A non-academic periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at the fold.
3. An ammunition storehouse.
4. A chamber in a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
5. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
6. (dated) A country or district especially rich in natural products.
7. (dated) A city viewed as a marketing center.
8. (dated) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
9. (television) A collection of Teletext pages.
   • 1983, Channels of Communications (volume 3, page 41)

     Most teletext "magazines" contain about 100 pages of information, typically including news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, video games, and stock prices.

   • 1984, Telecommunications (volume 18, page 89)

     The operator is able to build Teletext magazines of, typically, 100 pages per magazine, specify transmission times […]

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English magazine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.?a.zin/

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. magazine (periodical publication)

   Synonyms: revue, périodique

Further reading

• “magazine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

English magazine

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. magazine (publication, especially the supplement of a newspaper)

   Synonym: rivista

Further reading

• magazine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Noun

magazine m (plural magazines)

1. department store (store containing many departments)

   Synonym: loja de departamento

Romanian

Noun

magazine n pl

1. plural of magazin