BLANK CARTRIDGE

  

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BLANK CARTRIDGE

Definition: BLANK CARTRIDGE

BLANK CARTRIDGE

1. A cartridge containing no ball.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: BLANK CARTRIDGE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Blank Cartridge Cartridge with powder only, that is, without shot, bullet, or ball. Used in drill and in saluting. Figuratively, empty threats. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: BLANK CARTRIDGE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impotence

Telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BLANK CARTRIDGE

English words defined with "BLANK CARTRIDGE": Ball cartridge. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLANK CARTRIDGE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

blank cartridge

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BLANK CARTRIDGE

Language Translations for "BLANK CARTRIDGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏جراب خرطوش فارغ, ‏رصاصة فارغة خرطوشة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

халостен патрон. (various references)

   

Czech

  

slepý náboj. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

paukkupanos, löysä panos. (various references)

   

French

  

cartouche blanc. (various references)

   

German

  

Platzpatrone (blank). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άσφαιρο φυσίγγι. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vaktöltény (dummy bullet). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cartoose kyagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ankblay artridgecay

   

Russian 

  

холостой патрон (dummy bullet). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

manevarski metak (blank). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cartucho de fogueo (blank). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lös patron. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kurusıkı fişek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BLANK CARTRIDGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-g-i-k-l-n-r-r-t"

-4 letters: abreacting, acerbating, arbitraged, backdating, barracking, bracketing, calibrated, caretaking, lacerating, retackling, retracking, ringbarked.

-5 letters: algebraic, analgetic, antiblack, antiglare, arbitrage, arraigned, bacterial, bargained, bargainer, barnacled, barracked, barreling, barricade, bartering, cadential, calibrate, cantabile, carabiner, carinated, cartilage, cartridge, cratering, dackering, debarking, debarring, declarant, declaring, drinkable, erratical, gabardine, garlicked, glaciated, grantable, interlard, karabiner, lackering, racketing, recrating, redacting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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