cartridge
Syllables: car·tridge/ˈkɑːtɹɪd͡ʒ//ˈkɑɹtɹɪd͡ʒ/
cartridge noun: the package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
Noun
cartridge (plural cartridges)
- The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
- 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.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
- A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
- A replaceable valve assembly within a faucet or shower fixture that regulates the flow and temperature of the water.
- A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
- Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.
- 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.1983, “Helpline”, in Sinclair User, number 21
- A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.
- 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.1981, Communication Outlook, volume 3
- 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[…]2002, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 180
- 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".
Proper noun capitalized: Cartridge
Cartridge
- A surname.
cartridge meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cartridge in Hindi
- firearms package
- कारतूस kārtūs
cartridge in Tamil
- பொதியுறை, வெடிச்சுரை, வெடியுறை, சன்ன கோது, கோது
cartridge in Marathi
- vessel which contains the ink for a computer printer
- कार्टरिज kārṭarij
- enclosure containing read-only memory devices
- कार्टरिज kārṭarij
cartridge in Urdu
- firearms package
- کارْتُوس kārtūs
More languagesFewer languages
- cartridge in Bengali
- কার্তুজ kartuj
- cartridge in Telugu
- గుళిక
- cartridge in Malayalam
- വെടിത്തിര, തോക്കിൻറെ തിര നിറയ്ക്കുന്ന കൂട്
- cartridge in Kannada
- ಒರೆಗುಂಡು, ಹಿಡಿಗೆ, ತೋಟಾ, ಕೋವಿಗುಂಡು
- cartridge in Gujarati
- કારતૂસ kārtūs
- cartridge in Odia
- କାଟ୍ରିଜ୍, କାର୍ତୁଜ
- cartridge in Nepali
- कार्तुज
- cartridge in Tagalog
- kartutso
- cartridge in Arabic
- خَرْطُوش ḵarṭūš, خَرْطُوشَة ḵarṭūša
- cartridge in Malay
- peluru, katrij
- cartridge in Indonesian
- patrun, kertus, kelongsong peluru, kartrid tinta
- cartridge in Thai
- กระสุน grà-sǔn, คาร์ทริดจ์
- cartridge in Vietnamese
- mực
- cartridge in Myanmar
- ကျည် kyany
Examples of cartridge in a sentence
- The game console can store up to eight saves on a single cartridge.
- After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.
- The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
Forms of cartridge
| plural | cartridges |
|---|---|
| alternative form | cartage |
Origin of cartridge
Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.
Words formed from cartridge
- 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
Phrases with cartridge
Words that rhyme with cartridge
Questions about cartridge
- What does cartridge mean?
- Cartridge means the package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
- What is cartridge in Hindi?
- Cartridge in Hindi is कारतूस (kārtūs). See Cartridge meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cartridge?
- Cartridge can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cartridge?
- Cartridge is pronounced /ˈkɑːtɹɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cartridge?
- The plural of cartridge is cartridges.
Words near cartridge in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cartridge (page history and authors); Cartridge (page history and authors); cartridge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cartridge (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartridge (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cartridge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); કારતૂસ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); cartridge (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cartridge (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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