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Cartridge vs Disk - What's the difference?

cartridge | disk |

As a proper noun cartridge

is .

As a noun disk is

a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

As a verb disk is

(agriculture) to harrow.

cartridge

English

(wikipedia cartridge)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition ().
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=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.}}
  • (by extension) A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.
  • (computing) A vessel which contains the ink () for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
  • (computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data ().
  • * 1983 , Helpline'' (in ''Sinclair User issue 21)
    • 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.
  • (computing) A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.
  • * 1981 , Communication Outlook (volume 3)
    • 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.
  • * 2002 , Video Game Bible, 1985-2002 (page 180)
    • 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
  • (obsolete) 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" .

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, ball cartridge , bite the cartridge , cartridge bag , cartridge base , cartridge belt , cartridge brass , cartridge box , cartridge case , cartridge clip , cartridge drive , cartridge ejector , cartridge extractor , cartridge-filler , cartridge font , cartridge fuse , cartridge holder , cartridge paper , cartridge pen , cartridge player , 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 , microcartridge , removable cartridge , rim-fire cartridge , shot cartridge , tape cartridge , Travan cartridge , wildcat cartridge , wire cartridge}}

    disk

    English

    (wikipedia disk)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
    • A coin is a disk of metal.
  • Something resembling a disk.
    • Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
  • An .
  • A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
    • Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
  • A floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
    • He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
  • A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
    • She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
  • A harrow.
  • A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

    • Usage notes

    In International English, disk'' is the correct spelling for magnetic ''disks''. If the medium is optical, the variant ''disc'' is usually preferred, although computing is a peculiar field for the term. For instance hard disk and other disk drives are always thus spelled, yet so are terms like compact discs. Thus, if referring to a physical drive or older media (3" or 5.25" diskettes) the ''k'' is used, but ''c is used for newer (optical based) media. Less commonly, in British English, disc'' has been used for magnetic disks, as in ''floppy disc'' and ''discette .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) to harrow
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Various, title=Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1948, author=Various, title=Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 6, author=Jerry Sullivan, title=Field & Street, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants. }}

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