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Casing vs Cartridge - What's the difference?

casing | cartridge |

As nouns the difference between casing and cartridge

is that casing is that which encloses or encases while cartridge is the package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition (Wikipedia).

As a verb casing

is present participle of lang=en.

As a proper noun Cartridge is

{{surname|lang=en}.

casing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which encloses or encases.
    • Some people like to split the casing of a sausage before cooking so it doesn't burst. Others don't.
  • (uncountable, computing) The collective states of upper and lower case letters.
    • The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.

    Derived terms

    * sausage casing

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    *

    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}}