Casing vs. Cartridge — What's the Difference?

A cover or shell that protects or encloses something

A cylindrical, usually metal casing containing the primer and charge of ammunition for use in a firearm.

The frame round a door or window.

Such a casing fitted with a bullet.

An outer cover

A similar piece of ammunition, such as a shotgun shell.

The frame or framework for a window or door.

A case filled with high explosives, used in blasting.

A metal pipe or tube used as a lining for a water, oil, or gas well.

A small modular unit designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment

A membranous case, often made of animal intestine, used to contain sausage or other processed meat.

A removable case containing the stylus and electric conversion circuitry in a phonograph pickup.

A narrow passage for a rod or cord, as in a curtain or the waistband of a garment, made by folding over a small strip of fabric at its edge along its width and sewing it in place.

A case containing magnetic tape in a reel; a cassette.

That which encloses or encases.

A case containing a ribbon in a spool, for use in printers and electric typewriters.

(architecture) The decorative trim around a door or window.

A lightproof case with photographic film that can be loaded directly into a camera.

(oil industry) A metal pipe used to line the borehole of a well.

(firearms) The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.

The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.

(by extension) A prefabricated subassembly that can be easily installed in or removed from a larger mechanism or replaced with another interchangeable subassembly.

Present participle of case

(computing) A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.

The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

(computing) Magnetic tape storage, used for storing (backup) copies of data.

An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.

(computing) A removable enclosure containing read-only memory devices, used for rapid loading of software onto a home computer or video game console.

The housing or outer covering of something;

(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".

The outermost covering of a pneumatic tire

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

The enclosing frame around a door or window opening;

Ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun

A light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required

A module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment;

An electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable