(n.) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) The face in the painting, which dates from the right period, resembles that in the engraving by Martin Droeshout the Younger on the frontispiece of the First Folio - which was authenticated as a true likeness by Ben Jonson.
(2) When the story was published in 1974, the illustration of Badjelly that appeared on the frontispiece was "by Jane aged six".
(3) Read more The £10 note will feature a quote from Pride and Prejudice – “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading” – and a portrait of Austen based on the image commissioned by her brother as a frontispiece for the books, based in turn on the only universally agreed life portrait – despite many recent claimants – a fond but amateurish sketch by her sister.
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.