English Explanatory Dictionary

cartridge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
  2. A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
  3. A replaceable valve assembly within a faucet or shower fixture that regulates the flow and temperature of the water.
  4. A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
  5. Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.
  6. A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.
  7. 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".
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɑː.tɹɪd͡ʒ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cartridge.wav kärʹtrĭj /ˈkɑɹ.tɹɪd͡ʒ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-cartridge.wav

Word forms

cartridge cartridges cartage

Etymology

Corruption of earlier cartage, from French cartouche, from Italian cartoccio (“roll of paper”), from Medieval Latin carta (“paper”). Doublet of cartouche.

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

Afrikaans: patroon Albanian: fishek Arabic: خَرْطُوش Arabic: خَرْطُوشَة Armenian: փամփուշտ Azerbaijani: patron Belarusian: патро́н Bulgarian: патро́н Burmese: ကျည် Catalan: cartutx Chinese Mandarin: 槍彈 /枪弹 Chinese Mandarin: 彈藥筒 /弹药筒 Czech: náboj Danish: patron Dutch: patroon Estonian: padrun Finnish: patruuna Finnish: paukku Finnish: pati Finnish: kuti Finnish: ammus French: cartouche Galician: cartucho Georgian: ვაზნა German: Patrone Greek: φυσίγγιο Hebrew: מחסנית Hebrew: תרמיל Hindi: कारतूस Hungarian: töltény Hunsrik: Kartusch Ido: kartocho Indonesian: patrun Indonesian: kertus Indonesian: kelongsong peluru Ingrian: patrona Italian: cartuccia Japanese: 実包 Kazakh: патрон Korean: 탄약통 Kyrgyz: патрон Latvian: patrona Latvian: šāviņš Lithuanian: patronas Lithuanian: šovinys Macedonian: па́трон Macedonian: на́бој Malay: peluru Māori: kariri Norwegian Bokmål: patron Norwegian Nynorsk: patron Persian: فشنگ
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