What's the difference between ammunition and cartridge?

Ammunition


Definition:

  • (n.) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
  • (n.) Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
  • (n.) Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
  • (v. t.) To provide with ammunition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a wardrobe of the back bedroom they discovered a 9mm Glock pistol and in a plastic container under the bed there were more than 300 rounds of ammunition.
  • (2) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
  • (3) Short-range ammunition was developed for use by law enforcement personnel in congested, enclosed areas and primarily as a hijacking deterrent in commercial airliners.
  • (4) So is Jon Eisenberg, the deputy counsel to Trump for national security, another person who reportedly helped provide Nunes with ammunition for his accusations.
  • (5) Soldier Y replied: "It would be regarded as a gross breach, bearing in mind the nature and quantity of the ammunition that was allegedly found at the defendant's house."
  • (6) There has been little impact on interest rates, banks have not increased their lending and the yen has risen on the foreign exchanges - the opposite of what was planned - because investors fear that the Bank of Japan is fast running out of ammunition.
  • (7) The company was alleged to have provided the Nigerian army with vehicles, patrol boats and ammunition, and to have helped plan raids and terror campaigns against villages.
  • (8) But one has a right to demand what purpose it fulfils," wrote the Times's critic, who felt that Bond's "blockishly naturalistic piece, full of dead domestic longueurs and slavishly literal bawdry", would "supply valuable ammunition to those who attack modern drama as half-baked, gratuitously violent and squalid".
  • (9) The army units that were standing in front of the Republican Guard headquarters first started shooting teargas, then live ammunition above people's heads.
  • (10) A pistol and ammunition were also found in N's room.
  • (11) Although a rubber-coated bullet was found on the ground that day, this is not conclusive, since the bullets do not carry the same identifying scars as standard ammunition.
  • (12) To the amazement of the CRS the students regrouped and fought back, overturning cars, building barricades and digging up cobblestones to use as ammunition.
  • (13) However, the current security model for reducing the danger from guns involves a multilayered defence that relies on the regulation of both guns and ammunition.
  • (14) Hugh Griffiths, an arms trafficking expert at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said the seized ship is called Chong Chon Gang and has been on the institute's suspect list for some time, having previously been caught trafficking drugs and small arms ammunition.
  • (15) It also called for the international community to implement arms embargos that limit the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Syrian government.
  • (16) Annual US sales guns and ammunition total about $4bn, according to estimates from the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
  • (17) Nightingale initially claimed the pistol was a war trophy given to him by Iraqis he had helped during a posting there, and he had accumulated the ammunition because he worked as a range instructor and had failed to book it back through poor administration.
  • (18) Put together, that is an impressive battery of ammunition discovered by Labour within three hours of Osborne sitting down.
  • (19) The soldiers fired so many rounds that they ran low on ammunition.
  • (20) Based on the preparation, the weapons, bombs and ammunition seized, it is understood that a big atrocity was being planned,” Kaynak told reporters.

Cartridge


Definition:

  • (n.) A complete charge for a firearm, contained in, or held together by, a case, capsule, or shell of metal, pasteboard, or other material.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
  • (2) The recoveries using the cartridges were between 90-102% for urine and 81-93% for plasma.
  • (3) When imitation examination was carried out using pontamine blue dye solution in 7 kinds of syringes for the use of cartridge, dye reflux was observed in all of them.
  • (4) Following incubation of tissue fractions with desferrioxamine, the parent compound and its iron-bound form, ferrioxamine, are extracted using solid-phase cartridges and quantitated by reversed-phase HPLC using uv detection.
  • (5) The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack,” he told AFP.
  • (6) The method uses a highly fluorescent dienophile, 4-[2-(6,7-dimethoxy-4-methyl-3-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinoxalyl)ethyl]-1, 2,4- triazoline-3,5-dione (DMEQ-TAD), to fluorescence-label vitamin D. Vitamin D metabolites were roughly purified with a short cartridge column followed by HPLC, labeled with DMEQ-TAD, and the product was analyzed on HPLC.
  • (7) The water was analysed after purification and concentration on a C18 cartridge.
  • (8) A Puf- strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides (PUFB1) was constructed by deleting a portion of the proximal region of the puf operon and inserting a kanamycin resistance gene cartridge.
  • (9) We obtained stable mutants in which the chromosomal lysA gene, encoding meso-diaminopimelate decarboxylase, was interrupted by a chloramphenicol resistance cartridge, or in which an essential internal part of the lysA gene was deleted.
  • (10) A C18 solid-phase extraction cartridge is used to ensure quantitative salt-free recovery of the HGs, and the purified glycolipids are then rendered uv-absorbing by a per-O-benzoylation derivatization reaction for which optimal conditions have been established.
  • (11) The samples were extracted into a hydrochloric acid - glycine solution and the extracts concentrated and purified on cyclohexyl-bonded reversed-phase cartridges.
  • (12) Bile acids in human bile were first prefractionated into free, glycine- and taurine-conjugated bile acids using a Seppak C18 cartridge and a piperidinohydroxypropyl Sephadex LH-20 (PHP-LH-20) column.
  • (13) Multipolar cells with cell bodies distal (MP1) or proximal (MP2) to the plexiform layer send processes to several cartridges.
  • (14) The best conditions for extractions of free pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) from crude biological samples were investigated with various organic solvents and Sep-Pak C18 cartridges.
  • (15) In addition to their behavior on Sephadex G-50, the immunoactive insulin-related materials from the microbial sources behaved like authentic vertebrate insulins in their ability to be adsorbed to and eluted from disposable octadecasilylsilica cartridges, DEAE-Sephadex, DEAE-cellulose, and one system of high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC).
  • (16) The 2-methyl derivatives of tamoxifen (2-methyltamoxifen and 2-methyl-4-hydroxytamoxifen) were extracted from a cell culture medium at pH 5.4 (Earle's Minimum Essential Medium) with an internal standard (tamoxifen) on a phenyl sorbent cartridge.
  • (17) A number of veins and arteries were penetrated with 25- and 27-gauge needles attached to standard dental aspirating cartridge-type syringes.
  • (18) A cartridge was constructed which contained the divergent tet promoters of transposon Tn10 between an exoglucanase gene (cex) and an endoglucanase gene (cenA) of Cellulomonas fimi.
  • (19) ANF was extracted from plasma using an octadecasilyl silica cartridge with a recovery of 78.7%.
  • (20) The extract is then cleaned up on a silica cartridge.