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

[See BAWL]

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

Typist: Nelly

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