Book vs. Magazine — What's the Difference?
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Book
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is codex (plural, codices).
Magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication which is printed in gloss-coated and matte paper. Magazines are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content.
Book
A written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers
A book of selected poems
Magazine
A periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership
A women's weekly magazine
Book
A bound set of blank sheets for writing in
An accounts book
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Magazine
A container or detachable receptacle for holding a supply of cartridges to be fed automatically to the breech of a gun
He took the machine gun and a spare magazine
Book
A set of tickets, stamps, matches, samples of cloth, etc., bound together
A pattern book
Magazine
A store for arms, ammunition, and explosives for military use.
Book
Reserve (accommodation, a place, etc.); buy (a ticket) in advance
Book early to avoid disappointment
I have booked a table at the Swan
Magazine
A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.
Book
Make an official note of the personal details of (a person who has broken a law or rule)
The cop booked me and took me down to the station
Magazine
A television program that presents a variety of topics, usually on current events, in a format that often includes interviews and commentary.
Book
Leave suddenly
They just ate your pizza and drank your soda and booked
Magazine
A place where goods are stored, especially a building in a fort or a storeroom on a warship where ammunition is kept.
Book
A set of written, printed, or blank pages fastened along one side and encased between protective covers.
Magazine
The contents of a storehouse, especially a stock of ammunition.
Book
An e-book or other electronic resource structured like a book.
Magazine
A compartment in some types of firearms, often a small detachable box, in which cartridges are held to be fed into the firing chamber.
Book
A printed or written literary work
Did you ever finish writing that book?.
Magazine
A compartment in a camera in which rolls or cartridges of film are held for feeding through the exposure mechanism.
Book
A main division of a larger printed or written work
A book of the Old Testament.
Magazine
Any of various compartments attached to machines, used for storing or supplying necessary material.
Book
A volume in which financial or business transactions are recorded.
Magazine
Of or relating to periodicals
A magazine story.
Book
Books Financial or business records considered as a group
Checked the expenditures on the books.
Magazine
A non-academic periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at the fold.
Book
A libretto.
Magazine
(military) An ammunition storehouse.
Book
The script of a play.
Magazine
(nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.
The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.
Book
The Bible.
Magazine
A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
Book
The Koran.
Magazine
A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
Book
A set of prescribed standards or rules on which decisions are based
Runs the company by the book.
Magazine
(archaic) A country or district especially rich in natural products.
Book
Something regarded as a source of knowledge or understanding.
Magazine
(archaic) A city viewed as a marketing center.
Book
The total amount of experience, knowledge, understanding, and skill that can be used in solving a problem or performing a task
We used every trick in the book to finish the project on schedule.
Magazine
(archaic) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
Book
(Informal) Factual information, especially of a private nature
What's the book on him?.
Magazine
A collection of Teletext pages.
Book
A pack of like or similar items bound together
A book of matches.
Magazine
A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
Book
A record of bets placed on a race.
Magazine
The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.
Book
(Games) The number of card tricks needed before any tricks can have scoring value, as the first six tricks taken by the declaring side in bridge.
Magazine
A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
Book
To arrange for or purchase (tickets or lodgings, for example) in advance; reserve.
Magazine
A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.
Book
To arrange a reservation, as for a hotel room, for (someone)
Book me into the best hotel in town.
Magazine
A country or district especially rich in natural products.
Book
To hire or engage
Booked a band for Saturday night.
Magazine
A city viewed as a marketing center.
Book
To list or register in a book
Booked the revenue from last month's sales.
Magazine
A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
Book
To list or record appointments or engagements in
A calendar that was booked solid on Tuesday.
Magazine
A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
Book
To record information about (a suspected offender) after arrest in preparation for arraignment, usually including a criminal history search, fingerprinting, and photographing.
Magazine
To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.
Book
(Sports) To record the flagrant fouls of (a player) for possible disciplinary action, as in soccer.
Magazine
A periodic paperback publication;
It takes several years before a magazine starts to break even or make money
Book
To designate a time for; schedule
Let's book a meeting for next month.
Magazine
Product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object;
Tripped over a pile of magazines
Book
To be hired for or engaged in
The actor has booked his next movie with that director.
Magazine
A business firm that publishes magazines;
He works for a magazine
Book
To make a reservation
Book early if you want good seats.
Magazine
A light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
Book
(Informal) To move or travel rapidly
We booked along at a nice clip.
Magazine
A storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
Book
Of or relating to knowledge learned from books rather than actual experience
Has book smarts but not street smarts.
Magazine
A metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
Book
Appearing in a company's financial records
Book profits.
Book
A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.
He was frustrated because he couldn't find anything about dinosaurs in the book.
Book
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
I have three copies of his first book.
Book
A major division of a long work.
Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
Many readers find the first book of A Tale of Two Cities to be confusing.
Book
(gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
Book
(informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
Book
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
A book of stamps
A book of raffle tickets
Book
(theatre) The script of a musical or opera.
Book
Records of the accounts of a business.
Book
A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
Book
(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
Book
(poker slang) Four of a kind.
Book
(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
Book
A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
Book
(cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
Book
(figurative) Any source of instruction.
Book
(with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
Book
A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
Book
(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
I want to book a hotel room for tomorrow night.
I can book tickets for the concert next week.
Book
(transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
They booked that message from the hill
Book
(transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
I booked a flight to New York.
Book
To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
The police booked him for driving too fast.
Book
(sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
Book
To travel very fast.
He was really booking, until he passed the speed trap.
Book
To record bets as bookmaker.
Book
To receive the highest grade in a class.
The top three students had a bet on which one was going to book their intellectual property class.
Book
To leave.
He was here earlier, but he booked.
Book
A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing.
Book
A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Book
A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."
Book
A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc.; - often used in the plural; as, they got a subpoena to examine our books.
Book
Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of bridge or whist, being the minimum number of tricks that must be taken before any additional tricks are counted as part of the score for that hand; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set.
Book
A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; - used in preparing for a performance.
Book
A set of paper objects (tickets, stamps, matches, checks etc.) bound together by one edge, like a book; as, he bought a book of stamps.
Book
A book or list, actual or hypothetical, containing records of the best performances in some endeavor; a recordbook; - used in the phrase one for the book or one for the books.
Book
The set of facts about an athlete's performance, such as typical performance or playing habits or methods, that are accumulated by potential opponents as an aid in deciding how best to compete against that athlete; as, the book on Ted Williams suggests pitching to him low and outside.
Book
Same as book value.
Book
The list of current buy and sell orders maintained by a stock market specialist.
Book
The purchase orders still outstanding and unfilled on a company's ledger; as, book to bill ratio.
Book
To enter, write, or register in a book or list.
Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds.
Book
To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; to reserve{2}; also, to make an arrangement for a reservation; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater; to book a reservation at a restaurant.
Book
To mark out for; to destine or assign for; as, he is booked for the valedictory.
Here I am booked for three days more in Paris.
Book
To make an official record of a charge against (a suspect in a crime); - performed by police.
Book
A written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together);
I am reading a good book on economics
Book
Physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together;
He used a large book as a doorstop
Book
A record in which commercial accounts are recorded;
They got a subpoena to examine our books
Book
A number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge;
He bought a book of stamps
Book
A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone;
Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'
His name is in all the recordbooks
Book
A major division of a long written composition;
The book of Isaiah
Book
A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
Book
A collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made;
They run things by the book around here
Book
The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina
Book
The sacred writings of the Christian religions;
He went to carry the Word to the heathen
Book
Record a charge in a police register;
The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man
Book
Arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance;
Reserve me a seat on a flight
The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family
Please hold a table at Maxim's
Book
Engage for a performance;
Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo
Book
Register in a hotel booker
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