cartridge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
construction
engineering
firearms
government
manufacturing
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
plumbing
politics
sciences
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.
Inflected forms:
form: cartridges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cartage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
pos: noun
examples: Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
gloss: A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A replaceable valve assembly within a faucet or shower fixture that regulates the flow and temperature of the water.
pos: noun
gloss: A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
pos: noun
gloss: Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.
pos: noun
examples: The program generates a catalogue of the files on the cartridge selected by the user, reads the catalogue into memory and erases the cartridge copy, so that an up-to-date copy is always generated.
gloss: A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.
pos: noun
examples: We would like to see someone market a low-power, text-to-speech cartridge that would mate with the Epson and use its internal battery pack.
Nintendo made sure to loudly trumpet all of the advantages of the cartridge format, particularly the greatly reduced loading times and the sturdiness of the cartridges[…]
Not as good, though, as the PolyStation. Looks like a first-generation PlayStation in a Nitendo 64 box. And even though that bit on top looks like it should take a disc, it actually uses something like a Super Nintendo cartridge.
gloss: A small paper package, e.g. in an old book about making printer's type: After all the type has been cast: "The Boy will paper up each sort in a cartridge by itself".
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: ball cartridge
bite the cartridge
blank-cartridge
blank cartridge
cartomizer
cartridge base
cartridge belt
cartridge box
cartridge brass
cartridge case
cartridge clip
cartridge drive
cartridge ejector
cartridge extractor
cartridge-filler
cartridge font
cartridge fuse
cartridge holder
cartridgeless
cartridgelike
cartridge paper
cartridge pen
cartridge player
cartridge pleat
cartridge remover
cartridge seal
cartridge-shot
cartridge starter
center-fire cartridge
centre-fire cartridge
cheat cartridge
disk cartridge
DV cartridge
font cartridge
Hatton cartridge
ignition cartridge
ink cartridge
magnetic cartridge
memory cartridge
microcartridge
multicartridge
paper cartridge
phono cartridge
removable cartridge
rifle cartridge
rim-fire cartridge
shot cartridge
tape cartridge
Travan cartridge
wildcat cartridge
wire cartridge
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: patroon
lang: Albanian
word: fishek
lang: Arabic
word: خَرْطُوش
roman: ḵarṭūš
lang: Arabic
word: خَرْطُوشَة
roman: ḵarṭūša
lang: Armenian
word: փամփուշտ
roman: pʻampʻušt
lang: Azerbaijani
word: patron
lang: Belarusian
word: патро́н
roman: patrón
lang: Bengali
word: কার্তুজ
roman: kartuj
lang: Bulgarian
word: патро́н
roman: patrón
lang: Burmese
word: ကျည်
roman: kyany
lang: Catalan
word: cartutx
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 槍彈 /枪弹
roman: qiāngdàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 彈藥筒 /弹药筒
roman: dànyàotǒng
lang: Czech
word: náboj
lang: Danish
word: patron
lang: Dutch
word: patroon
lang: Estonian
word: padrun
lang: Finnish
word: patruuna
lang: Finnish
word: paukku
lang: Finnish
word: pati
lang: Finnish
word: kuti
lang: Finnish
word: ammus
lang: French
word: cartouche
lang: Galician
word: cartucho
lang: Georgian
word: ვაზნა
roman: vazna
lang: German
word: Patrone
lang: Greek
word: φυσίγγιο
roman: fysíngio
lang: Hebrew
word: מַחְסָנִית
roman: makhsanít
lang: Hebrew
word: תַּרְמִיל
roman: tarmíl
lang: Hindi
word: कारतूस
roman: kārtūs
lang: Hungarian
word: töltény
lang: Hunsrik
word: Kartusch
lang: Ido
word: kartocho
lang: Indonesian
word: patrun
lang: Indonesian
word: kertus
lang: Indonesian
word: kelongsong peluru
lang: Ingrian
word: patrona
lang: Italian
word: cartuccia
lang: Japanese
word: 実包
roman: jippō
lang: Kazakh
word: патрон
roman: patron
lang: Korean
word: 탄약통
roman: tanyaktong
lang: Kyrgyz
word: патрон
roman: patron
lang: Latvian
word: patrona
lang: Latvian
word: šāviņš
lang: Lithuanian
word: patronas
lang: Lithuanian
word: šovinys
lang: Macedonian
word: па́трон
roman: pátron
lang: Macedonian
word: на́бој
roman: náboj
lang: Malay
word: peluru
lang: Māori
word: kariri
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: patron
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: patron
lang: Iranian Persian
word: فِشَنْگ
roman: fešang
lang: Polish
word: nabój
lang: Portuguese
word: cartucho
lang: Portuguese
word: pente
lang: Romanian
word: cartuș
lang: Russian
word: патро́н
roman: patrón
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ме̏так
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: патро́на
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: фишуга
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mȅtak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: patróna
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: fišuga
lang: Sicilian
word: cartocciu
lang: Slovak
word: náboj
lang: Slovene
word: naboj
lang: Spanish
word: cartucho
lang: Spanish
word: cartuchera
lang: Swahili
word: ramia
lang: Swedish
word: patron
lang: Tagalog
word: kartutso
lang: Tajik
word: патрон
roman: patron
lang: Turkish
word: kovan
lang: Turkish
word: hartuç
lang: Turkish
word: fişek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فشك
roman: fişek
lang: Ukrainian
word: набі́й
roman: nabíj
lang: Ukrainian
word: патро́н
roman: patrón
lang: Urdu
word: کارْتُوس
roman: kārtūs
lang: Uzbek
word: patron