Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
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ABC
Audit Bureau of Circulation (W3)

What Is ABC

"Audit Bureau of Circulations" ("ABC") is one of the several organisations of the same name operating in different parts of world. "ABC" founded in 1948 is a not-for-profit, voluntary organisation consisting of publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies as members. It does pioneering work in developing audit procedures to certify the circulation figures of publications which are members of ABC.

ABC as it is called and understood by all, is a founder member of the "International Federation of Audit Bureaux of Certification". The main function of "ABC" is to evolve, lay down a standard and uniform audit procedure by which a member publisher shall compute its Qualifying copies. The circulation figure so arrived at is checked and verified by a firm of chartered accountants which are empanelled by the Bureau. The Bureau issues ABC certificates every six months to those publisher members whose circulation figures confirm to the rules and regulations as set out by the Bureau.

Circulation figures that are checked and certified by an independent body are an important tool and critical to the advertising business community. For more information visit www.auditbureau.org.

ABC's membership today includes 562 Dailies, 107 Weeklies and 50 magazines plus 125 Advertising Agencies, 45 Advertisers & 22 New Agencies and Associations connected with print media and advertising. It covers most of the major towns in India.

An Advertiser would like to know the facts and figures before investing his money in advertising. An Advertiser ought to know how many people buy a publication and in which area. The ABC gives all these vital statistics every six months. The ABC figures are not the outcome of opinions, claims or guesswork, but they are the result of rigid, indepth and impartial audits of paid circulation of member publications by independent firms of Chartered Accountants working in accordance with the rules / procedures prescribed by the Bureau.

ABC - Audit Bureau of Circulation

Englisches Institut, das die Verbreitung von Zeitschriften und Zeitungen feststellt. Vergleichbar mit "IVW" in Deutschland und "BPA" in den USA

Audit Bureau of Circulations – mehrere Organisationen zur Auflagen- und Reichweiten-Ermittlung von Printmedien

Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) bezeichnet:

• Audit Bureaux of Australia
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (Großbritannien)
• Hong Kong Audit Bureau of Circulations
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (Indien)
• Audit Bureau of Circulations (Nordamerika), seit 2012 Alliance for Audited Media

Magazine (W3)

• a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.
• a room or place for keeping gunpowder and other explosives, as in a fort or on a warship.
• a building or place for keeping military stores, as arms, ammunition, or provisions.
• a metal receptacle for a number of cartridges, inserted into certain types of automatic weapons and when empty removed and replaced by a full receptacle in order to continue firing.
• Also called magazine show. Radio and Television.
• Also called newsmagazine. a regularly scheduled news program consisting of several short segments in which various subjects of current interest are examined, usually in greater detail than on a regular newscast.
• a program with a varied format that combines interviews, commentary, entertainment, etc.

• a periodical paperback publication containing articles, fiction, photographs, etc
• a metal box or drum holding several cartridges used in some kinds of automatic firearms; it is removed and replaced when empty
• a building or compartment for storing weapons, explosives, military provisions, etc
• a stock of ammunition
• a device for continuously recharging a handling system, stove, or boiler with solid fuel
• photog another name for cartridge
• a rack for automatically feeding a number of slides through a projector
• a TV or radio programme made up of a series of short nonfiction items

• Harper's Magazine (American magazine)
• Harper's New Monthly Magazine (American magazine)
• Harper's Weekly (American magazine)

Étymol. et Hist. 1776 (J. Anglais, II, 251 ds Bonn., p. 89: Magazines sentimentales [...] et autres brochures périodiques). Empr. à l'angl. "magazine", issu du fr. (v. "magasin"), qui avait pris au xiies., à partir du sens de «dépôt de marchandises» celui de «dépôt, recueil d'informations» dans des titres d'ouvrages d'où son utilisation pour désigner un recueil périodique (1731, The Gentleman's Magazine, titre d'une revue ds NED). Le fr. "magasin", parfois par transcr. de l'angl., a été employé au même sens (cf. Le Magasin Charitable, recueil périodique fondé sous les auspices de St Vincent de Paul d'apr. Bonn., pp. 181-182, en 1741, Le Magasin des événements de tous genres, éd. à Amsterdam d'apr. Barb. Infl. 1919, p. 36 et en 1750, Le Nouveau Magasin Français publié à Londres d'apr. Bonn., p. 80, v. aussi Brunot t. 6, p. 1233).

"magazine" (n.) 1580s, "place for storing goods, especially military ammunition," from Middle French "magasin" "warehouse", "depot", "store" (15c.), from Italian "magazzino", from Arabic "makhazin", plural of "makhzan" "storehouse" (cf. Spanish "almacén" "warehouse", "magazine"), from "khazana" "to store up." The original sense is almost obsolete; meaning "periodical journal" dates from the publication of the first one, "Gentleman's Magazine," in 1731, which was so called from earlier use of the word for a printed list of military stores and information, or in a figurative sense, from the publication being a "storehouse" of information.

Chaplin, Heman White, 1847-1924

• By The Sea - 1887 (English) (as Author)
• Eli - First published in the "Century Magazine" (English) (as Author)
• Five Hundred Dollars - First published in the "Century Magazine" (English) (as Author)
• In Madeira Place - 1887 (English) (as Author)
• The New Minister's Great Opportunity - First published in the "Century Magazine" (English) (as Author)
• Saint Patrick - 1887 (English) (as Author)
• The Village Convict - First published in the "Century Magazine" (English) (as Author)

Die erste englische allgemeine kulturpolitische Monatsschrift (mit Essays, Rezensionen, kritischen Beiträgen u.a. sowie Parlamentsberichten [seit 1732]) war das von Edward Cave (* 1691, † 1754) gegründete "Gentleman's Magazine", London 1731 - 1914.

Die erste englische Modezeitschrift war "The Lady's Magazine", London 1770 - 1832.

Der Holzschnitt, insbesondere der Holzstich, fand als Illustrationstechnik nicht nur in Büchern, sondern auch in Zeitschriften Eingang.

Der englische Verleger und Publizist Charles Knight (* Windsor 1791, † Addlestone 1873) war der erste, der eine mit Holzstichen illustrierte Wochenzeitschrift, das "Penny Magazine", London 1832 - 1842, herausgab. Das Penny Magazine als Typ der volksbildenden illustrierten Zeitschrift wurde Vorbild für ähnliche Unternehmen (sowie für die spätere Illustrierte), die einen großen Teil ihrer Beliebtheit der Holzschnittillustration verdankten.

Als erste gedruckte Kriminalgeschichte gilt "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Edgar Allan Poe (* Boston [Mass.] 1809, † Baltimore [Md.] 1849), die erstmals im Aprilheft 1841 von "Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine" (Philadelphia [Pa.]) erschien.

"Harper's Magazine" ist die älteste, noch erscheinende literarische Monatszeitschrift der USA, die 1850 in New York von den vier Brüdern Harper der Verlagsbuchhandlung Harper & Brothers als "Harper's Monthly Magazine" gegründet wurde. 1920-1925 erschien sie u.d.T. "Harper's New Monthly Magazine", danach unter der heutigen Bezeichnung.

So begann 1792 der britische Erfinder und Flugzeugpionier Sir George Cayley (* Scarborough 1773, † Brompton [heute zu London ] 1857), mit Modellen starrflügeliger Flugapparate zu experimentieren, baute 1809 einen Prototyp, und 1849 hob ein zehnjähriger Junge von einem Hügel aus vom Boden ab. 1852/1853 baute Cayley ein Gleitflugzeug (detailliert beschrieben im "Mechanics Magazine" [London] vom 15. September 1852), das einen Menschen tragen konnte: Die drachenförmigen Tragflächen waren ca. 46 m**2 groß, das Gesamtgewicht betrug etwa 150 kg; der Pilot saß in einem bootsähnlichen Rumpf mit dreirädrigem Fahrwerk. 1853 segelte Cayleys Kutscher (vermutlich ein gewisser John Appleby) etwa 500 m weit über eine Talsenke in der Nähe von Brompton.

Die erste, noch erscheinende englische Schachzeitschrift ist "The British Chess Magazine", Huddersfield (heute Leonards on Sea [Sussex]) 1881 ff.

Das Nachrichtenmagazin (engl.: news magazine) (ein Typ der politischen Wochenzeitschrift, gekennzeichnet durch Anonymität der Beiträge, Tatsachen- und Detailschilderungen in einer sachlichen Sprache, gezielte Nachforschungen und umfassende Dokumentation mit Hilfe eines Redaktionsarchivs) wurde von den amerikanischen Publizisten Henry Robinson Luce (* Penglai [Prov. Shandong] 1898, † Phoenix [Ariz.] 1967) und Briton Hadden (* 1890, † 1929) mit der von ihnen in New York 1923 gegründeten Zeitschrift "Time. The weekly news magazine" eingeführt.

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