different between magazine vs chapter

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

English

Alternative forms

• chaptre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English chapiter, from Old French chapitre, from Latin capitulum (“a chapter of a book, in Medieval Latin also a synod or council”), diminutive of caput (“a head”); see capital, capitulum, and chapiter, which are doublets of chapter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??æpt?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??æpt?/

Noun

chapter (plural chapters)

1. (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.

   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. Certain ecclesiastical bodies (under canon law)
   1. An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
   2. A community of canons or canonesses.
   3. A bishop's council.
3. A section of a social body.
   1. An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
   2. An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
      • 1862, The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine

        If the By-Law which admits honorary members is silent upon their rights, they may perhaps be determined by a consideration of which of these classes was intended by the Chapter in admitting them

4. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
5. A chapter house.

   1. (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

6. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
   • 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Book the Last, Chapter I,

     "You know that Mr. Armadale is alive," pursued the doctor, "and you know that he is coming back to England. Why do you continue to wear your widow's dress?" ¶ She answered him without an instant's hesitation, steadily going on with her work. ¶ "Because I am of a sanguine disposition, like you. I mean to trust to the chapter of accidents to the very last. Mr. Armadale may die yet, on his way home."
7. A decretal epistle.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ayliffe to this entry?)

8. (obsolete) A location or compartment.

Synonyms

• ch., chpt. (abbreviations)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• overarching

Further reading

• chapter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• chapter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

chapter (third-person singular simple present chapters, present participle chaptering, simple past and past participle chaptered)

1. To divide into chapters.
2. To put into a chapter.
3. (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone.
4. (transitive) To take to task.

Anagrams

• carpeth, chaptre, patcher, pearcht, preacht, repatch