What's the difference between ammunition and magazine?

Ammunition


Definition:

  • (n.) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
  • (n.) Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
  • (n.) Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
  • (v. t.) To provide with ammunition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a wardrobe of the back bedroom they discovered a 9mm Glock pistol and in a plastic container under the bed there were more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
  • (2) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
  • (3) Short-range ammunition was developed for use by law enforcement personnel in congested, enclosed areas and primarily as a hijacking deterrent in commercial airliners.
  • (4) So is Jon Eisenberg, the deputy counsel to Trump for national security, another person who reportedly helped provide Nunes with ammunition for his accusations.
  • (5) Soldier Y replied: "It would be regarded as a gross breach, bearing in mind the nature and quantity of the ammunition that was allegedly found at the defendant's house."
  • (6) There has been little impact on interest rates, banks have not increased their lending and the yen has risen on the foreign exchanges - the opposite of what was planned - because investors fear that the Bank of Japan is fast running out of ammunition.
  • (7) The company was alleged to have provided the Nigerian army with vehicles, patrol boats and ammunition, and to have helped plan raids and terror campaigns against villages.
  • (8) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
  • (9) The army units that were standing in front of the Republican Guard headquarters first started shooting teargas, then live ammunition above people's heads.
  • (10) A pistol and ammunition were also found in N's room.
  • (11) Although a rubber-coated bullet was found on the ground that day, this is not conclusive, since the bullets do not carry the same identifying scars as standard ammunition.
  • (12) To the amazement of the CRS the students regrouped and fought back, overturning cars, building barricades and digging up cobblestones to use as ammunition.
  • (13) However, the current security model for reducing the danger from guns involves a multilayered defence that relies on the regulation of both guns and ammunition.
  • (14) Hugh Griffiths, an arms trafficking expert at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said the seized ship is called Chong Chon Gang and has been on the institute's suspect list for some time, having previously been caught trafficking drugs and small arms ammunition.
  • (15) It also called for the international community to implement arms embargos that limit the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Syrian government.
  • (16) Annual US sales guns and ammunition total about $4bn, according to estimates from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
  • (17) Nightingale initially claimed the pistol was a war trophy given to him by Iraqis he had helped during a posting there, and he had accumulated the ammunition because he worked as a range instructor and had failed to book it back through poor administration.
  • (18) Put together, that is an impressive battery of ammunition discovered by Labour within three hours of Osborne sitting down.
  • (19) The soldiers fired so many rounds that they ran low on ammunition.
  • (20) Based on the preparation, the weapons, bombs and ammunition seized, it is understood that a big atrocity was being planned,” Kaynak told reporters.

Magazine


Definition:

  • (n.) A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
  • (n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
  • (n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
  • (n.) A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
  • (v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
  • (2) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
  • (3) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
  • (4) magazine as well as adult TV channels through subsidiary Portland .
  • (5) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
  • (6) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
  • (7) The government response came after David Cameron acknowledged the possible effect on families in an interview for parliament's House Magazine .
  • (8) US Banker magazine, which ranked her the fifth most powerful female banker in the US, has quoted her as admitting to preaching a work-life balance but admitting: "I don't have much of one myself."
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Global trade unions called the collapse ‘mass industrial homicide’, while Vogue magazine described it as ‘tragedy on an epic scale’.
  • (10) She told Time magazine that “doors and windows were flying” after the blast.
  • (11) Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday that Germany’s bid committee had tapped into a slush fund of €6.7m to buy votes at world football’s governing body Fifa.
  • (12) A biography, magazine articles, and various surveys of his work convey the impression that his ideas are timely, or at least that they are historically important.
  • (13) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
  • (14) However, her initiation at the magazine was not easy.
  • (15) They have denied the allegations and have filed a criminal complaint accusing the magazine of defamation.
  • (16) Open Mon-Sat 10am-10pm • Brian Donaldson is books editor of Scottish arts magazine The List
  • (17) The reason fashion magazines have been excited over the M&S coat is because various high-end designers all made pink coats this season.
  • (18) A debate in 1998 in International Security magazine saw the Chicago academic, Robert Pape, barely challenged in his view that only around five of the 115 cases of sanctions imposed since the war could claim any plausible efficacy.
  • (19) "I always thought it would be the Colombians who would cheat me out of the money, but they made good," Juan told the magazine.
  • (20) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.