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Register   /rˈɛdʒɪstər/   Listen
noun
Register  n.  
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."
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.
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.
(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.
Synonyms: List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See List.


verb
Register  v. t.  (past & past part. registere; pres. part. registering)  
1.
To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
2.
To enroll; to enter in a list. "Such follow him as shall be registered."
3.
(Securities) To enter the name of the owner of (a share of stock, a bond, or other security) in a register, or record book. A registered security is transferable only on the written assignment of the owner of record and on surrender of his bond, stock certificate, or the like.
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.


Register  v. i.  
1.
To enroll one's name in a register.
2.
(Print.) To correspond in relative 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.





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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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