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REGISTER
register
(noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
register
(noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
register
(noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind
register
(noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
register, registry
(noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions
register
(noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed
register
(verb) enter into someone’s consciousness; “Did this event register in your parents’ minds?”
read, register, show, record
(verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; “The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero”; “The gauge read ‘empty’”
file, register
(verb) record in a public office or in a court of law; “file for divorce”; “file a complaint”
register
(verb) send by registered mail; “I’d like to register this letter”
register
(verb) manipulate the registers of an organ
record, register
(verb) be aware of; “Did you register any change when I pressed the button?”
register
(verb) show in one’s face; “Her surprise did not register”
register
(verb) enroll to vote; “register for an election”
register
(verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
register, cross-file
(verb) have one’s name listed as a candidate for several parties
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Register
A surname.
Anagrams
• registre
Etymology
Noun
register (plural registers)
A formal recording of names, events, transactions etc.
A book of such entries.
An entry in such a book.
The act of registering.
A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections
A device that automatically records a quantity.
(telecommunications) The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
(telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
(computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs or intermediate results of computations.
(printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins and colors.
(printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
(music) The range of a voice or instrument.
(music) An organ stop.
(linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
(mostly, US) Clipping of cash register.
Synonyms
• See also list
Hyponyms
• cash register
• parish register
Verb
register (third-person singular simple present registers, present participle registering, simple past and past participle registered)
(transitive) To enter in a register.
(transitive) To enroll, especially to vote.
(transitive) To record, especially in writing.
(ambitransitive) To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment.
(transitive) To express outward signs.
(transitive, mail) To record officially and handle specially.
(transitive, especially, printing) To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned.
(intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
(intransitive) To make an impression.
(intransitive) To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly.
(legal) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.
Synonyms
• (enter in a register): enroll, put down; see also enlist
Antonyms
• unregister, deregister
Anagrams
• registre
Source: Wiktionary
Reg"is*ter (rj"s*tr), n. Etym: [OE. registre, F. registre, LL. registrum,regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr. regerere, regestum, to carry back, to register; pref. re- re- + gerere to carry. See Jest, and cf. Regest.]
1. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule. As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own. Shak.
2. (Com.) (a) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. (b) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
3. Etym: [Cf. LL. registrarius. Cf. Regisrar.]
Definition: One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds.
4. That which registers or records. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process. (b) (Teleg.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. (c) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
5. A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation.
6. (Print.) (a) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. (b) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. (c) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2.
7. (Mus.) (a) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register.
Note: In respect to the vocal tones, the thick register properly extends below from the F on the lower space of the treble staff. The thin register extends an octave above this. The small register is above the thin. The voice in the thick register is called the chest voice; in the thin, the head voice. Falsetto is a kind off voice, of a thin, shrull quality, made by using the mechanism of the upper thin register for tones below the proper limit on the scale. E. Behnke. (b) A stop or set of pipes in an organ. Parish register, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish.
Syn.
– List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See List.
Reg"is*ter (rj"s*tr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Registere (-trd); p. pr. & vb. n. Registering.] Etym: [Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See Register, n.]
1. T
2. To enroll; to enter in a list. Such follow him as shall be registered. Milton. Registered letter, a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care.
Reg"is*ter, v. i.
1. To enroll one's name in a register.
2. (Print.)
Definition: To correspond in ralative position; as, two pages, columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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