From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcartridgecar‧tridge /ˈkɑːtrɪdʒ $ ˈkɑːr-/ noun [countable] 1 TDa small container or piece of equipment that you put inside something to make it work computer game cartridges an ink cartridge for a printer2 PMWa tube containing explosive powder and a bullet that you put in a gun SYN shell
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cartridge• Fox had found a bullet bedded in the ground and a cartridge case to go with it.• All of these devices offer large amounts of storage on relatively low-cost cartridges or disks.• The Iomega Jaz drive stores a gigabyte of information on each cartridge and operates as fast as an internal hard drive.• a computer game cartridge• Little piles of cartridges accumulated on the slab - there was nothing else whatever in any of the pockets.• Using the optional black-only cartridge it should print a five per cent black page for only 0.7p.• My fingers were so cold that I could hardly handle the cartridges, but they very soon warmed up to the work.• Wind the film back into the cartridge before you open the camera.• I then replaced the cartridges, and they still leaked.• The 4300 features separate units, which makes toner cartridge replacement cheaper when it happens.Origin cartridge (1600-1700) cartage “cartridge” ((16-17 centuries)), from French cartouche “gun cartridge with a paper case”, from Italian cartoccio, from carta; → CARD1 