cartridge

«cartridge» in Mova's school dictionary: a small container that holds something and fits into a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cartridge, cartridges)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cartridge is a small container that holds something and fits into a machine or tool, like an ink cartridge for a pen or printer. tree →

2) A cartridge is the case holding a bullet and gunpowder for a gun. tree →

3) A game cartridge is a plastic case with a game inside, plugged into a games console. tree →

4) A cartridge can also be a tube or packet of stiff paper that wraps coins or other things. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school pupils use fountain pens with ink cartridges and change printer cartridges. In everyday life: water filter cartridges, old game cartridges. In safety: gun cartridges are dangerous; never touch them.

examples

• My pen ran out, so I put in a new ink cartridge. tree →
• The printer needs a black cartridge. tree →
• Grandad still has his old game cartridges. tree →
• Change the cartridge in the water filter every month. tree →
• Hunters carry cartridges for their guns. tree →
• Push the cartridge in until it clicks. tree →
• I heard all about them this morning from a brown-paper cartridge, who happened to be staying in the same drawer as myself, and knew the latest Court news.” tree →

note

Countable: cartridges. Spelled «car-tridge» (not «catridge»). In some places a cartridge for ink is called a refill.

In the corpora

• Never touch fireworks, cartridges or flares found on the ground; tell a grown-up, because they may still explode.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cartridge» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.