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Register   /rˈɛdʒɪstər/   Listen
Register

noun
1.
An official written record of names or events or transactions.  Synonym: registry.
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.
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.
7.
A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill.  Synonym: cash register.
verb
(past & past part. registere; pres. part. registering)
1.
Record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions.
2.
Record in a public office or in a court of law.  Synonym: file.  "File a complaint"
3.
Enroll to vote.
4.
Be aware of.  Synonym: record.
5.
Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.  Synonyms: read, record, show.  "The gauge read 'empty'"
6.
Have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties.  Synonym: cross-file.
7.
Show in one's face.
8.
Manipulate the registers of an organ.
9.
Send by registered mail.
10.
Enter into someone's consciousness.



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"Register" Quotes from Famous Books



... for that to register. Then he became frightened. Gus and Gerd were both on their feet and crowding to the screen ...
— Little Fuzzy • Henry Beam Piper
... everything they demanded. By the treaty of Conflans (1465) he might seem to have flung up the game in despair, and to have signed the ruin of France. But his high Court of Justice (Parlement), by refusing to register the treaty, gave him an excuse for evading its performance, and by negotiating with the princes separately he broke up their coalition. The peaceful and industrious classes stood by him, and he studiously cared for their interests; mixing familiarly ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 • Various
... his own eyes; he amply relieves them, of such a function. They come only to inquire how significant the poet's expressions are for humanity at large or for whatever public he addresses. They come to register the social or representative value of the poet's soul. His inspiration may have been an odd cerebral rumbling, a perfectly irrecoverable and wasted intuition; the exquisite quality it doubtless had to his own sense is now not to the purpose. A ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... now drawing up the death certificate in the register," continued Massot in his chattering way. "Come along, come along to the barriers if you wish a good view.... I turned paler, you know, and trembled far more than he did. I don't care a rap for anything ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... edge, stood a marine trumpeting something at Hogarth's yacht; and, just landing at the Boodah from his gig, a fretful Yankee skipper, register in hand with a bag of L900 sea-rent in gold, while twenty yards yonder rode his smoking ship loaded with grain for Rouen; and on the eastern horizon the armada, in crescent at present, moving with fires banked at two knots, a glare hiding them from the naked eye, but the glass ...
— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel


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