cartridge

Everyday

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 →

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.