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"etymology_text": "Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.",
"forms": [
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"form": "zines",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "'zine",
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"alternative"
]
}
],
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"Entertainment",
"Writing",
"Media",
"Society",
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
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}
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"derived": [
{
"word": "adzine"
},
{
"word": "apazine"
},
{
"word": "blogzine"
},
{
"word": "clubzine"
},
{
"word": "crudzine"
},
{
"word": "cyberzine"
},
{
"word": "diskzine"
},
{
"word": "ezine"
},
{
"word": "e-zine"
},
{
"word": "fanzine"
},
{
"word": "filmzine"
},
{
"word": "genzine"
},
{
"word": "girlzine"
},
{
"word": "infozine"
},
{
"word": "letterzine"
},
{
"word": "litzine"
},
{
"word": "musiczine"
},
{
"word": "netzine"
},
{
"word": "personalzine"
},
{
"word": "perzine"
},
{
"word": "prozine"
},
{
"word": "punk zine"
},
{
"word": "punkzine"
},
{
"word": "slashzine"
},
{
"word": "stfanzine"
},
{
"word": "stfzine"
},
{
"word": "tapezine"
},
{
"word": "videozine"
},
{
"word": "webzine"
},
{
"word": "zinefan"
},
{
"word": "zinefest"
},
{
"word": "zinelike"
},
{
"word": "zinester"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:",
"text": "Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21:",
"text": "The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:",
"text": "I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (5:35 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén):",
"text": "“Do you think Cal Bodian's over there? Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I. Undercover fanzine. I've done everything myself. I just took a guess about the chest hair.”",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest."
],
"id": "en-zine-en-noun-ImkadZCI",
"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "publication",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "brochure"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zin",
"sense": "publication",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зин"
},
{
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "publication",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zine"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"zine"
]
}
],
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},
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}
],
"word": "zine"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "adzine"
},
{
"word": "apazine"
},
{
"word": "blogzine"
},
{
"word": "clubzine"
},
{
"word": "crudzine"
},
{
"word": "cyberzine"
},
{
"word": "diskzine"
},
{
"word": "ezine"
},
{
"word": "e-zine"
},
{
"word": "fanzine"
},
{
"word": "filmzine"
},
{
"word": "genzine"
},
{
"word": "girlzine"
},
{
"word": "infozine"
},
{
"word": "letterzine"
},
{
"word": "litzine"
},
{
"word": "musiczine"
},
{
"word": "netzine"
},
{
"word": "personalzine"
},
{
"word": "perzine"
},
{
"word": "prozine"
},
{
"word": "punk zine"
},
{
"word": "punkzine"
},
{
"word": "slashzine"
},
{
"word": "stfanzine"
},
{
"word": "stfzine"
},
{
"word": "tapezine"
},
{
"word": "videozine"
},
{
"word": "webzine"
},
{
"word": "zinefan"
},
{
"word": "zinefest"
},
{
"word": "zinelike"
},
{
"word": "zinester"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Shortened from fanzine, ultimately from magazine; from 1965.",
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{
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"plural"
]
},
{
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"alternative"
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}
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"Pages with 4 entries",
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"Rhymes:English/iːn",
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"Terms with Russian translations",
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{
"ref": "2005, Kim Cooper, “Mimeos and Cut-Out Bins”, in David Smay, editor, Lost in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:",
"text": "Zines contributed to an evolving critical language that would ultimately take two paths: into the gut or to the academy. The most compelling zines fused the two.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Samantha Holland, Remote Relationships in a Small World, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 21:",
"text": "The feminist zine community is not located in place but it geographically dispersed, constituting a connected flow of communicative practices, spaces, texts, technologies, bodies, and utterances.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas W. Bean, Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self: (Re)Constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices, Routledge, →ISBN, page 58:",
"text": "I conducted a content analysis of the zines I collected by using techniques of thematic analysis (Patton, 1990). I read and reread each of the zines’ contents. I annotated the prose, cartoons, poetry, and narratives in the zines by noting key words that signaled topics and assigning codes and subcodes that were later collapsed to form categories.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (5:35 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén):",
"text": "“Do you think Cal Bodian's over there? Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I. Undercover fanzine. I've done everything myself. I just took a guess about the chest hair.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A low-circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images, especially one of minority interest."
],
"wikipedia": [
"zine"
]
}
],
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},
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "publication",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "brochure"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zin",
"sense": "publication",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зин"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "publication",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zine"
}
],
"word": "zine"
}
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