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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



... Folly' by John Davies of Hertford, entered in the Stationer's Register October 8th, 1610, occurs an epigram referring to this play." Let us examine this statement first. On the next page he says: "The 'Scourge of Folly' furnishes no further clue in regard to the date of the epigram." On page 59 of the same essay, ...
— The Critics Versus Shakspere - A Brief for the Defendant • Francis A. Smith
... passionately still the joys of a human love; Wolfram again contends, giving us this time a really glorious song, and the storm breaks: the Venusberg is before Tannhaeuser's eyes; the violins sweep to their highest register, and remain there boiling and dancing in a kind of divine fury; and in mad exaltation he chants his hymn to Venus. Then the commotion occurs ...
— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman
... European warfare, yet again rekindled by the energy and eloquence of Gilly, expanded and deepened by the devotedness of Beckwith, and other benefactors following in his train too numerous for us to register, but not one of them ignored or forgotten by the grateful valley-men benefitted by their Christian kindness. Apart from the institutions to which I have already adverted, there is another which meets the eye of the visitor ...
— The Vaudois of Piedmont - A Visit to their Valleys • John Napper Worsfold
... I have examined is in the Grenville Library, No. 6666. It is in fine condition and complete, notwithstanding what the Sobolewski Sale Catalogue says to the contrary (No. 1730): it is a small 8vo ff. 84; each quire containing, as is indicated by the register, eight sheets, except quire 1, which has ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... The "main line" wire was attached to the copper office-wire. The batteries were charged, the register was arranged with its paper strip, and everything was ready for the transmission of messages across ...
— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton


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