Register has several meanings, but one of the most common is to write down or record officially. Like registering your car with the DMV and registering for classes at the beginning of a semester.
A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
Noun
a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
Noun
a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
Noun
an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
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
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
Noun
an official written record of names or events or transactions
Noun
a book in which names and transactions are listed
Verb
enter into someone''s consciousness; "Did this event register in your parents'' minds?"
Verb
indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty''"
Verb
record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"
Verb
send by registered mail; "I''d like to register this letter"
Verb
manipulate the registers of an organ
Verb
be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"
Verb
show in one''s face; "Her surprise did not register"
Verb
enroll to vote; "register for an election"
Verb
record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
Verb
have one''s name listed as a candidate for several parties
n.
A written account or entry; an official or formal
enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll;
a schedule.
n.
A record containing a list and description of the
merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
That which registers or records.
n.
A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of
a machine or the rapidity of a process.
n.
The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records
automatically the message received.
n.
A machine for registering automatically the number of
persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
n.
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.
n.
The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
n.
The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the
opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.
n.
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.
v. i.
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.
v. i.
A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
n.
To enter in a register; to record formally and
distinctly, as for future use or service.
n.
To enroll; to enter in a list.
v. i.
To enroll one's name in a register.
v. i.
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.
Register
As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own.2.
Register
Such follow him as shall be registered.
Register
A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
T enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
To enroll one's name in a register.
Usage Examples
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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Other Usage ExamplesHistory is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
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