Register
['redʒɪstə] or ['rɛdʒɪstɚ]
Definition
(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.) send by registered mail; 'I'd like to register this letter'.
(verb.) manipulate the registers of an organ.
(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.
Editor: Sheldon--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Matt
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Record (as of deeds, or of births and deaths), list, chronicle, roll.[2]. Registrar, scribe, clerk, keeper of a record.
v. a. [1]. Record, make a record of.[2]. Enroll, enter on a list.
Checker: Trent
Synonyms and Antonyms
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Editor: Moore
Definition
n. a written record regularly kept: the book containing the register: that which registers or records: one who registers as the Scotch 'Lord Clerk Register:' that which regulates as the damper of a furnace or stove: a stop or range of pipes on the organ &c.: the compass of a voice or of a musical instrument: (print.) exact adjustment of position in the presswork of books printed on both sides.—v.t. to enter in a register: to record.—adjs. Reg′isterable Reg′istrable capable of being registered; Reg′istered enrolled as a registered voter.—ns. Reg′ister-grate a grate with a shutter behind; Reg′ister-off′ice a record-office: an employment office; Reg′ister-plate in rope-making a disc having holes so arranged as to give the yarns passing through them their proper position for entering into the general twist; Reg′istrant one who registers esp. a trade-mark or patent; Reg′istrar one who keeps a register or official record; Reg′istrar-gen′eral an officer having the superintendence of the registration of all births deaths and marriages; Reg′istrarship office of a registrar.—v.t. Reg′istrāte.—ns. Registrā′tion act of registering: in organ-playing the act of combining stops for the playing of given pieces of music; Reg′istry act of registering: place where a register is kept: facts recorded.—Registration Act a statute of 1885 extending the borough system of registration to county towns; Registration of British ships a duty imposed on ship-owners in order to secure to their vessels the privileges of British ships; Registration of copyright the recording of the title of a book for the purpose of securing the copyright; Registration of trade-marks the public system of registering such with a view to secure their exclusive use.—Parish register a book in which the births deaths and marriages are inscribed; Ship's register a document showing the ownership of a vessel.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that some one registers your name at a hotel for you, denotes you will undertake some work which will be finished by others. If you register under an assumed name, you will engage in some guilty enterprise which will give you much uneasiness of mind.
Typist: Marvin
Unserious Contents or Definition
The only autograph album which it costs you money to write in.
Checker: Terrance
Examples
- Not a vestige of the entry which recorded the marriage of Sir Felix Glyde and Cecilia Jane Elster in the register of the church! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And they went into the very room where Little Dorrit had slumbered after her party, to sign the Marriage Register. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Little need to show that this detested family name had long been anathematised by Saint Antoine, and was wrought into the fatal register. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It may surprise you to hear that what he really did to the marriage register was done on the spur of the moment--done on second thoughts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The meters commonly used measure the amperes, volts, and time automatically, and register the electric power supplied in watt hours. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- We could go into the hotel and register as Doctor and Mrs Livingstone I presume, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A more pronounced illustration is to wet the hands in a basin of water, and then plunge them in the blast of hot, dry air coming from a furnace register. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- An examination of his betting-book shows that bets to the amount of five thousand pounds had been registered by him against the favorite. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Gudrun, mocking and objective, watched and registered everything. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He shall be registered to-morrow. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In this way, the number of cubic feet of gas which pass through the meter is automatically registered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- With my old friend's help, I soon had the succession of circumstances clearly registered in my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Nor can the person who reads one corrupt newspaper and then goes out to vote make any claim to having registered his will. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The scene is the Vestry-room of St James's Church, with a number of leathery old registers on shelves, that might be bound in Lady Tippinses. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Will has not been copied yet into the great Folio Registers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In France there are several different sorts of secret registers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A great part of the extraordinary work, besides, which is probably done in cheap years, never enters the public registers of manufactures. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Move the 4-pound weight so that it is very near the fulcrum, say but 6 inches from it; then the spring balance registers a force only one fourth as great as the weight which it suspends. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When the roller is raised along the incline, the balance registers a pull only one fourth as great as the actual weight of the roller. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Think of our Whitcombs, and our Ainsworths and our Williamses writing themselves down in dilapidated French in foreign hotel registers! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At other times, free balloons are liberated, carrying sets of automatic registering instruments. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Voting is a formal method of registering consent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is to turn ourselves into a piece of registering apparatus. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Does he understand about registering the death? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Figure 48 shows a barograph or self-registering barometer which automatically registers air pressure. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The self-registering thermometer at the top of Mr. Ablewhite's bald head began to indicate a rise of temper. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Typist: Nelly