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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does one word end up meaning several, completely different things?

Synonyms make sense, but a word like "match" have at least three different meanings that have nothing on common.
gpt
The borrowing of a related word from another language which becomes the original word's main meaning. A good example is the English word "magazine", originally a French word meaning something like "warehouse" or "storehouse" and retaining that meaning when talking about a ship's powder magazine. Then in the late 1700's in France there appeared a new regularly published literary anthology called "Magasin des Histoires" or warehouse of stories. The format proved hugely popular both inside and outside of France and spawned many imitations, which in English became known by their French name, "magazine".