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Cartridge

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

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Ammunition 76% connected

Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.

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Module 76% connected

A model or measure.

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Blank 76% connected

Of a white or pale color; without color.

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Cartouch 76% connected

A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge

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Dummy 76% connected

Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.

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Bullet 70% connected

A small ball.

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Slug 70% connected

A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.

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Stylus 70% connected

An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.

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Camera 70% connected

A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.

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Phonograph 70% connected

A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.

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Magazine 92% connected

A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.

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Programme noun · 85% connection

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Compiler noun · 85% connection

(computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program

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Compiling program noun · 85% connection

(computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program

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Interface noun · 85% connection

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Interpreter noun · 85% connection

(computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time

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Interpretive program noun · 85% connection

(computer science) a program that translates and executes source language statements one line at a time

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Service program noun · 85% connection

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User interface noun · 85% connection

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Anti-virus program noun · 84% connection

a computer program that checks a computer for viruses and prevents their spread

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Application program noun · 84% connection

a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; "he has tried several different wo…

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Applications programme noun · 84% connection

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Assembly program noun · 84% connection

a program to convert assembly language into machine language

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Autocorrect noun · 84% connection

a system for automatically correcting text

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Accusative adjective · 78% connection

Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influenc…

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Base adjective · 78% connection

Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base,…

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Bomb noun · 78% connection

A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: complete, charge, firearm, contained, held.
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Calibre noun · 78% connection

The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will c…

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Candlebomb noun · 78% connection

A pasteboard shell used in signaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes.

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Capsulary adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsule; hollow and fibrous.

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Card noun · 78% connection

A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.

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Carton noun · 78% connection

Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.

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Case noun · 78% connection

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridg…

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Charge verb · 78% connection

To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load;…

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Confine verb · 78% connection

to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trai…

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