register — English Dictionary

register
Word-form referencescash register
Pronunciations (7)
  • /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/
    Pronunciation notes
    • Received-Pronunciation
  • /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stɚ/
    Pronunciation notes
    • Canada
    • General-American
  • /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ə.stɚ/
    Pronunciation notes
    • Canada
    • General-American
  • /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/
    Pronunciation notes
    • Australia
  • /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ə.stə/
    Pronunciation notes
    • New-Zealand
  • ˈɹɛdʒ.ɪs.tə
    Pronunciation notes
    • GB
  • ˈɹɛdʒ.ɪs.tɚ
    Pronunciation notes
    • US

Noun

  1. A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.

    Examples

    The teacher took the register by calling out each child's name.

  2. A book of such entries.

    Examples

    As you have one eye upon my follies, […] turn another into the register of your own.

  3. An entry in such a book.

  4. The act of registering.

  5. 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.

  6. One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.

    Examples

    a register of deeds

  7. A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.

    Examples
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    The division of the field into an upper and lower register, with decorative motifs in the upper register and a scene with figures in the lower register, as here, is, as has been mentioned, characteristic of Syrian seals from the early second millennium.

    The east wall is decorated in raised relief with two registers of scenes above a dado showing a northward fecundity figure procession.

    The reverse side is divided into three registers. In the first register is the name of Narmer represented as a fish and a chisel inscribed in the serekh.

  8. A device that automatically records a quantity.

  9. The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.

  10. A list of received calls in a phone set.

  11. 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.

    Examples
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    When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

    If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.

  12. The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.

  13. The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.

  14. The range of a voice or instrument.

  15. An organ stop.

  16. A style of a language used in a particular context.

    Examples

    We rewrote certain communications templates to use a more formal register.

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    It seems equally clear that the ‘Complement + Prepositionʼ order illustrated in (172) (a) is likewise highly marked, and hence subject to heavy restrictions on its use. And sure enough, this does indeed seem to be the case: for one thing, forms such as thereafter, herein, whereby are stylistically highly marked (e.g. they are only used in particular registers such as legal language).

    While e-memos are less formal than the memos discussed [above], they still need to be professional in appearance and in register, that is, in the level of formality.

  17. A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.

    Examples

    No. 1 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air. No. 2 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air.

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    The remaining ceiling register is connected with the main vent shaft containing the smokepipe. Each of the ceiling registers in the lecture hall is controlled by a damper operated by a drain in the boilerroom.

    The Ideal Wall Register is not a receptacle for the accumulation of dirt. It avoids the necessity of cutting carpets. It is absolutely fireproof.

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    He went up to the room he shared with Buddy and opened the hot-air register so he could hear what his mother did next.

Verb

  1. To enter in a register; to enlist.

    Usage
    • Transitive
  2. To sign-up, especially to vote.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples
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    I am running for President to take this country in a new direction. But I can’t do it alone. I need you. Whether it’s the first time, or the first time in a long time, I need you to register and vote on November 4th.

  3. To record, especially in writing.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    Tottenham, who lost William Gallas to injury before the end, struggled to find any sort of response and did not register a single shot on target.

    In every way dinner proved up beyond my expectations, and I registered a note that the cook, whoever or whatever he might be, was a capable man at his trade.

  4. To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment.

    Usage
    • Transitive or intransitive
    Examples

    This is a trial version, and will expire in 30 days. Please register!

  5. To express outward signs.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    Members of Boston's lesbian and gay community participated in the protest to register anger at the hotel's exploitative treatment of women workers.

  6. To record officially and handle specially.

    Usage
    • Transitive
  7. To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned.

    Usage
    • especially
    • Transitive
  8. To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples

    They registered for school.

  9. To make an impression.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples
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    You’re not listening. You’ve gone off inside your head on one of your riffs and the plain fact that your son is ill hasn’t even registered. The plain fact that I have to wake up every morning and listen to him asking—unbearably asking—why his father isn’t home hasn’t registered.

  10. To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples

    The slightly smaller hind print may overlap but seldom registers precisely in the front track.

    […] but cat tracks are slightly more staggered, and on each side the back foot registers directly on the track of the front foot.

  11. To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.

  12. To perceive or comprehend; pick up on.

    Usage
    • Transitive
    Examples

    I did not register that look to mean anything more than an innocent, friendly smile.

  13. To occur; become realised or noticed; dawn on.

    Usage
    • Intransitive
    Examples

    It did not register with me at the time that he'd end up betraying me, making off with all my savings.

Noun

  1. an official written record of names or events or transactions

    Synonyms
  2. (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

  3. a book in which names and transactions are listed

    Broader terms
  4. (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

  5. an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room

  6. a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device

    Broader terms
  7. a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill

Verb

  1. record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions

    Broader terms
  2. record in a public office or in a court of law

    Synonyms
    Examples

    file for divorce

    file a complaint

  3. enroll to vote

    Examples

    register for an election

  4. be aware of

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
    Examples

    Did you register any change when I pressed the button?

  5. indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments

    Broader terms
    Examples

    The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero

    The gauge read ‘empty’

  6. have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties

    Synonyms
    Broader terms
  7. show in one's face

    Broader terms
    Examples

    Her surprise did not register

  8. manipulate the registers of an organ

    Broader terms
  9. send by registered mail

    Broader terms
    Examples

    I'd like to register this letter

  10. enter into someone's consciousness

    Broader terms
    Examples

    Did this event register in your parents' minds?

Word forms
registersregistreregistersregisteringregisteredregistered

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