What's the difference between glossy and magazine?

Glossy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
  • (superl.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
  • (2) About 20,000 of those glossy programmes are normally sold for a big occasion at Manchester United but for this game almost four times that number had been produced.
  • (3) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
  • (4) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
  • (5) Photograph: Martin Godwin They say: Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Condé Nast: "Given the current economic climate, it is reassuring that glossy magazines are still selling in considerable numbers.
  • (6) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
  • (7) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
  • (8) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
  • (9) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
  • (10) The launch - from five sites across the US in partnership with Canadian media group Quebecor - will bring him into direct competition with the giants of the glossy world of American publishing, like Time Inc and Condé Nast.
  • (11) For people who don’t care about pop music or the fashion industry, it’s just another month of glossy magazines.
  • (12) Asos also publishes a glossy magazine with circulation of 470,000 – more than Glamour , Grazia or even the giveaway Stylist .
  • (13) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
  • (14) However, Condé Nast insiders say Greig's resignation is expected within days and the glossy magazine publisher's managing director, Nicolas Coleridge, is understood to be discreetly searching for a replacement Tatler editor.
  • (15) In addition to glossiness, color coordinates in the CIELAB color scale and surface roughness were measured.
  • (16) When you subscribe to the Daily Telegraph you get so much extra: “extra, extra every day”, says the glossy new TV commercial for Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney tabloid.
  • (17) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
  • (18) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
  • (19) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
  • (20) Don't place too much authority on universities' glossy photos and grinning case studies – they're adverts.

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.