Cartridge vs Ink - What's the difference?
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(firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition ().
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, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 (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)
(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)
* 2002 , Video Game Bible, 1985-2002 (page 180)
(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" .
A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.
(countable) A particular type, color or container of this fluid.
The black or dark-colored fluid ejected by squid, octopus etc, as a protective strategy.
(slang, uncountable) Publicity.
(slang, uncountable) Tattoo work.
* 1998 , Richard Dooling, Brain storm
* 1998 , The Offspring, (song)
(slang) Cheap red wine.
To apply to; to cover or smear with ink.
To sign (a document) (with or as if with ink).
To apply a tattoo to (someone).
As a proper noun cartridge
is .As a noun ink is
a pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.As a verb ink is
to apply to; to cover or smear with ink.cartridge
English
(wikipedia cartridge)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- 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.
- 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
Derived terms
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- The TSA has been getting a lot of ink lately.
- "I saw it hanging on the wall of a tattoo hut where I went to get some ink done ten years ago," he stuttered, flushing in splotches and squirming in his chair.
- Now he's getting a tattoo. / Yeah, he's getting ink done. / He asked for a 13, / But they drew a 31.