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magazine
(gcide) | mag \mag\ n.
Shortened form of magazine, the periodic paperback
publication. [slang]
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Magazine
(gcide) | Magazine \Mag`a*zine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magazined; p. pr.
& vb. n. Magazining.]
To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.
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Magazine
(gcide) | Magazine \Mag`a*zine"\, n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp.
magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a
storehouse, granary, or cellar.]
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1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially
military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
"Armories and magazines." --Milton.
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2. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept
in a fortification or a ship.
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3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to
be fed automatically to the piece.
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4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous
papers or compositions.
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5. A country or district especially rich in natural products.
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6. A city viewed as a marketing center.
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7. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery,
camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
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8. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
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Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without
anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder
magazine.
Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a
chamber carrying cartridges which are brought
automatically into position for firing.
Magazine stove, 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.
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magazine
(gcide) | 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, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or
possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to
convey. Hence, specifically:
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(a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get
the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection
to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make
prisoner; as, to take an army, a city, or a ship;
also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack;
to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the
like.
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This man was taken of the Jews. --Acts xxiii.
27.
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Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
--Pope.
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They that come abroad after these showers are
commonly taken with sickness. --Bacon.
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There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
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(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
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Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
--Prov. vi.
25.
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Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
that he had no patience. --Wake.
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I know not why, but there was a something in
those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
which took me more than all the outshining
loveliness of her companions. --Moore.
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(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
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Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
son. And Jonathan was taken. --1 Sam. xiv.
42.
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The violence of storming is the course which God
is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
sinners. --Hammond.
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(d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat; it
takes five hours to get to Boston from New York by
car.
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This man always takes time . . . before he
passes his judgments. --I. Watts.
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(e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
picture; as, to take a picture of a person.
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Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
--Dryden.
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(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
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The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
forcible motive to a good life, because taken
from this consideration of the most lasting
happiness and misery. --Tillotson.
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(g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit
to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to;
to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest,
revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a
resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a
following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as,
to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
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(h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
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(i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
over; as, he took the book to the bindery; he took a
dictionary with him.
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He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
--Chaucer.
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(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
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2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
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(a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
refuse or reject; to admit.
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Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
murderer. --Num. xxxv.
31.
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Let not a widow be taken into the number under
threescore. --1 Tim. v.
10.
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(b) To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to
partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
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(c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
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(d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to;
to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will
take an affront from no man.
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(e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to
dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought;
to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret;
to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as,
to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's
motive; to take men for spies.
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You take me right. --Bacon.
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Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
else but the science love of God and our
neighbor. --Wake.
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[He] took that for virtue and affection which
was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
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You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
--Tate.
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(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept;
to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with;
-- used in general senses; as, to take a form or
shape.
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I take thee at thy word. --Rowe.
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Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
Not take the mold. --Dryden.
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3. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to
take a group or a scene. [Colloq.]
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4. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he
took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs.
exc. Slang or Dial.]
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To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air,
etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc.
To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
To take along, to carry, lead, or convey.
To take arms, to commence war or hostilities.
To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away."
--Dryden.
To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen?" --1 Cor. ix. 9.
To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care
for; to superintend or oversee.
To take down.
(a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent
yet, that I was not taken down." --Goldsmith.
(b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
(c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
house or a scaffold.
(d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
words at the time he utters them.
To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and
Fire.
To take ground to the right or To take ground to the left
(Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move,
as troops, to the right or left.
To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be
encouraged.
To take heed, to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what
doom against yourself you give." --Dryden.
To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
ways.
To take hold of, to seize; to fix on.
To take horse, to mount and ride a horse.
To take in.
(a) To inclose; to fence.
(b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
(c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
or furl; as, to take in sail.
(d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
[Colloq.]
(e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
water.
(f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
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For now Troy's broad-wayed town
He shall take in. --Chapman.
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(g) To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some
bright genius can take in a long train of
propositions." --I. Watts.
(h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
To take in hand. See under Hand.
To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. "Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."
--Ex. xx. 7.
To take issue. See under Issue.
To take leave. See Leave, n., 2.
To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it
regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular
attention.
To take notice of. See under Notice.
To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
manner.
To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
on a character or responsibility.
To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue
the measures of one's own choice.
To take order for. See under Order.
To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
To take orders.
(a) To receive directions or commands.
(b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See
Order, n., 10.
To take out.
(a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
(b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as,
to take out a stain or spot from cloth.
(c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.
To take up.
(a) To lift; to raise. --Hood.
(b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large
amount; to take up money at the bank.
(c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. --Ezek. xix.
1.
(d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to
replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically
(Surg.), to fasten with a ligature.
(e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take
up the time; to take up a great deal of room.
(f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the
finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian
religion." --Addison.
(g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief;
to take up vagabonds.
(h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]
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The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
--Bacon.
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(i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.
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One of his relations took him up roundly.
--L'Estrange.
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(k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in
continuous succession; to take up (a topic, an
activity).
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Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale. --Addison.
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(l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or
manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors;
to take up current opinions. "They take up our old
trade of conquering." --Dryden.
(m) To comprise; to include. "The noble poem of Palemon
and Arcite . . . takes up seven years." --Dryden.
(n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of
assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. --Ps.
xxvii. 10.
(o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take
up a contribution. "Take up commodities upon our
bills." --Shak.
(p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.
(q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as,
to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make
tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack
thread in sewing.
(r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a
quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak. -- (s) To accept from someone,
as a wager or a challenge; as, J. took M. up on his
challenge.
To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above.
To take upon one's self.
(a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to
assert that the fact is capable of proof.
(b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed
to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon
one's self a punishment.
To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.
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magazine
(wn) | magazine
n 1: a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and
articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe
to it; "it takes several years before a magazine starts to
break even or make money" [syn: magazine, mag]
2: product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a
physical object; "tripped over a pile of magazines"
3: a business firm that publishes magazines; "he works for a
magazine" [syn: magazine, magazine publisher]
4: a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying
it for exposure as required [syn: magazine, cartridge]
5: a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons
and ammunition are stored [syn: magazine, powder store,
powder magazine]
6: a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be
inserted into an automatic gun [syn: cartridge holder,
cartridge clip, clip, magazine] |
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Expense magazine
(gcide) | Expense \Ex*pense"\, n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum,
fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.]
1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
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Husband nature's riches from expense. --Shak.
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2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost;
outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or
damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the
expenses of war; an expense of time.
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Courting popularity at his party's expense.
--Brougham.
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3. Loss. [Obs.] --Shak.
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And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
--Spenser.
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Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing
ammunition for immediate use. --H. L. Scott.
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Magazine
(gcide) | mag \mag\ n.
Shortened form of magazine, the periodic paperback
publication. [slang]
[WordNet 1.5]Magazine \Mag`a*zine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magazined; p. pr.
& vb. n. Magazining.]
To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.
[1913 Webster]Magazine \Mag`a*zine"\, n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp.
magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a
storehouse, granary, or cellar.]
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1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially
military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
"Armories and magazines." --Milton.
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2. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept
in a fortification or a ship.
[1913 Webster]
3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to
be fed automatically to the piece.
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4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous
papers or compositions.
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5. A country or district especially rich in natural products.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
6. A city viewed as a marketing center.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
7. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery,
camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
8. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without
anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder
magazine.
Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a
chamber carrying cartridges which are brought
automatically into position for firing.
Magazine stove, 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.
[1913 Webster]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, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or
possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to
convey. Hence, specifically:
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(a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get
the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection
to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make
prisoner; as, to take an army, a city, or a ship;
also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack;
to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the
like.
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This man was taken of the Jews. --Acts xxiii.
27.
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Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take;
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
--Pope.
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They that come abroad after these showers are
commonly taken with sickness. --Bacon.
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There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle
And makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to
captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
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Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
--Prov. vi.
25.
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Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect,
that he had no patience. --Wake.
[1913 Webster]
I know not why, but there was a something in
those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very
shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, --
which took me more than all the outshining
loveliness of her companions. --Moore.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to
have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
[1913 Webster]
Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my
son. And Jonathan was taken. --1 Sam. xiv.
42.
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The violence of storming is the course which God
is forced to take for the destroying . . . of
sinners. --Hammond.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to
require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat; it
takes five hours to get to Boston from New York by
car.
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This man always takes time . . . before he
passes his judgments. --I. Watts.
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(e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to
picture; as, to take a picture of a person.
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Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
--Dryden.
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(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
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The firm belief of a future judgment is the most
forcible motive to a good life, because taken
from this consideration of the most lasting
happiness and misery. --Tillotson.
[1913 Webster]
(g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit
to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to;
to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest,
revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a
resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a
following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as,
to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
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(h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
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(i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand
over; as, he took the book to the bindery; he took a
dictionary with him.
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He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
--Chaucer.
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(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as,
to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
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2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to
endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically:
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(a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to
refuse or reject; to admit.
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Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
murderer. --Num. xxxv.
31.
[1913 Webster]
Let not a widow be taken into the number under
threescore. --1 Tim. v.
10.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to
partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.
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(c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to
clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.
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(d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to;
to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will
take an affront from no man.
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(e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to
dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought;
to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret;
to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as,
to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's
motive; to take men for spies.
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You take me right. --Bacon.
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Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing
else but the science love of God and our
neighbor. --Wake.
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[He] took that for virtue and affection which
was nothing but vice in a disguise. --South.
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You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
--Tate.
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(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept;
to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with;
-- used in general senses; as, to take a form or
shape.
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I take thee at thy word. --Rowe.
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Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . .
Not take the mold. --Dryden.
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3. To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to
take a group or a scene. [Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he
took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs.
exc. Slang or Dial.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air,
etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc.
To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.
To take along, to carry, lead, or convey.
To take arms, to commence war or hostilities.
To take away, to carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation
of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes
of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away."
--Dryden.
To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe
or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.
To take care, to exercise care or vigilance; to be
solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen?" --1 Cor. ix. 9.
To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care
for; to superintend or oversee.
To take down.
(a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher,
place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower;
to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down
pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent
yet, that I was not taken down." --Goldsmith.
(b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
(c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a
house or a scaffold.
(d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's
words at the time he utters them.
To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and
Fire.
To take ground to the right or To take ground to the left
(Mil.), to extend the line to the right or left; to move,
as troops, to the right or left.
To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be
encouraged.
To take heed, to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what
doom against yourself you give." --Dryden.
To take heed to, to attend with care, as, take heed to thy
ways.
To take hold of, to seize; to fix on.
To take horse, to mount and ride a horse.
To take in.
(a) To inclose; to fence.
(b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
(c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
or furl; as, to take in sail.
(d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive.
[Colloq.]
(e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in
water.
(f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
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For now Troy's broad-wayed town
He shall take in. --Chapman.
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(g) To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some
bright genius can take in a long train of
propositions." --I. Watts.
(h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or
newspaper; to take. [Eng.]
To take in hand. See under Hand.
To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an oath. "Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."
--Ex. xx. 7.
To take issue. See under Issue.
To take leave. See Leave, n., 2.
To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it
regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.
To take notice, to observe, or to observe with particular
attention.
To take notice of. See under Notice.
To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial
manner.
To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take
on a character or responsibility.
To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue
the measures of one's own choice.
To take order for. See under Order.
To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
To take orders.
(a) To receive directions or commands.
(b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See
Order, n., 10.
To take out.
(a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
(b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as,
to take out a stain or spot from cloth.
(c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.
To take up.
(a) To lift; to raise. --Hood.
(b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large
amount; to take up money at the bank.
(c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. --Ezek. xix.
1.
(d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to
replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically
(Surg.), to fasten with a ligature.
(e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take
up the time; to take up a great deal of room.
(f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the
finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian
religion." --Addison.
(g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief;
to take up vagabonds.
(h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]
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The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
--Bacon.
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(i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.
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One of his relations took him up roundly.
--L'Estrange.
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(k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in
continuous succession; to take up (a topic, an
activity).
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Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale. --Addison.
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(l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or
manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors;
to take up current opinions. "They take up our old
trade of conquering." --Dryden.
(m) To comprise; to include. "The noble poem of Palemon
and Arcite . . . takes up seven years." --Dryden.
(n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of
assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. --Ps.
xxvii. 10.
(o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take
up a contribution. "Take up commodities upon our
bills." --Shak.
(p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.
(q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as,
to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make
tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack
thread in sewing.
(r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a
quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak. -- (s) To accept from someone,
as a wager or a challenge; as, J. took M. up on his
challenge.
To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above.
To take upon one's self.
(a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to
assert that the fact is capable of proof.
(b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed
to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon
one's self a punishment.
To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.
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Magazine camera
(gcide) | Magazine camera \Magazine camera\ (Photog.)
A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without
reloading.
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Magazine dress
(gcide) | Magazine \Mag`a*zine"\, n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp.
magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a
storehouse, granary, or cellar.]
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1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially
military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
"Armories and magazines." --Milton.
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2. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept
in a fortification or a ship.
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3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to
be fed automatically to the piece.
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4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous
papers or compositions.
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5. A country or district especially rich in natural products.
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6. A city viewed as a marketing center.
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7. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery,
camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
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8. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
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Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without
anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder
magazine.
Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a
chamber carrying cartridges which are brought
automatically into position for firing.
Magazine stove, 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.
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Magazine gun
(gcide) | Magazine \Mag`a*zine"\, n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp.
magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a
storehouse, granary, or cellar.]
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1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially
military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
"Armories and magazines." --Milton.
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2. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept
in a fortification or a ship.
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3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to
be fed automatically to the piece.
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4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous
papers or compositions.
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5. A country or district especially rich in natural products.
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6. A city viewed as a marketing center.
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7. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery,
camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
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8. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
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Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without
anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder
magazine.
Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a
chamber carrying cartridges which are brought
automatically into position for firing.
Magazine stove, 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.
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Magazine rack
(gcide) | Magazine rack \Mag`a*zine" rack`\, n.
A rack or stand for displaying magazines[4].
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Magazine stove
(gcide) | Magazine \Mag`a*zine"\, n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp.
magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a
storehouse, granary, or cellar.]
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1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially
military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
"Armories and magazines." --Milton.
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2. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept
in a fortification or a ship.
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3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to
be fed automatically to the piece.
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4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous
papers or compositions.
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5. A country or district especially rich in natural products.
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6. A city viewed as a marketing center.
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7. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery,
camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
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8. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
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Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without
anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder
magazine.
Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a
chamber carrying cartridges which are brought
automatically into position for firing.
Magazine stove, 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.
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Magazined
(gcide) | Magazine \Mag`a*zine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magazined; p. pr.
& vb. n. Magazining.]
To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.
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Magaziner
(gcide) | Magaziner \Mag`a*zin"er\, n.
One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] --Goldsmith.
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Powder magazine
(gcide) | Powder \Pow"der\, n. [OE. poudre, pouldre, F. poudre, OF. also
poldre, puldre, L. pulvis, pulveris: cf. pollen fine flour,
mill dust, E. pollen. Cf. Polverine, Pulverize.]
1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced
by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it
falls by decay; dust.
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Grind their bones to powder small. --Shak.
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2. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.;
gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
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Atlas powder, Baking powder, etc. See under Atlas,
Baking, etc.
Powder down (Zool.), the peculiar dust, or exfoliation, of
powder-down feathers.
Powder-down feather (Zool.), one of a peculiar kind of
modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain
parts of some birds. They have a greasy texture and a
scaly exfoliation.
Powder-down patch (Zool.), a tuft or patch of powder-down
feathers.
Powder hose, a tube of strong linen, about an inch in
diameter, filled with powder and used in firing mines.
--Farrow.
Powder hoy (Naut.), a vessel specially fitted to carry
powder for the supply of war ships. They are usually
painted red and carry a red flag.
Powder magazine, or Powder room. See Magazine, 2.
Powder mine, a mine exploded by gunpowder. See Mine.
Powder monkey (Naut.), a boy formerly employed on war
vessels to carry powder; a powder boy.
Powder post. See Dry rot, under Dry.
Powder puff. See Puff, n.
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magazine article
(wn) | magazine article
n 1: an article published in a magazine |
magazine publisher
(wn) | magazine publisher
n 1: a business firm that publishes magazines; "he works for a
magazine" [syn: magazine, magazine publisher] |
magazine rack
(wn) | magazine rack
n 1: a rack for displaying magazines |
news magazine
(wn) | news magazine
n 1: a magazine devoted to reports of current events; usually
published weekly |
powder magazine
(wn) | powder magazine
n 1: a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons
and ammunition are stored [syn: magazine, powder store,
powder magazine] |
pulp magazine
(wn) | pulp magazine
n 1: an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper [syn:
pulp, pulp magazine] |
slick magazine
(wn) | slick magazine
n 1: a magazine printed on good quality paper [syn: slick,
slick magazine, glossy] |
trade magazine
(wn) | trade magazine
n 1: a magazine published for and read by members of a
particular trade group |
electronic magazine
(foldoc) | electronic magazine
e-zine
(e-zine) A regular
publication on some particular topic distributed in digital
form, chiefly now via the web but also by
electronic mail or floppy disk. E-zines are often
distributed for free by enthusiasts.
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