Registers
['rɛdʒɪstɚ]
Examples
- 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.
- The instrument is so constructed that clockwork at the top registers the number of revolutions made by the disk in one second. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Democracy, because it registers popular feeling, is at least trying to build truly, and is for that reason an enlightened form of government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If _K_ is closed for but a short time, the armature is drawn down for but a short interval, and the marker registers a dot on the tape. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Some registers were lying open on a desk, and an officer of a coarse, dark aspect, presided over these. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Figure 48 shows a barograph or self-registering barometer which automatically registers air pressure. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- These fare registers have been called A mechanical conscience for street car conductors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- If the temperature of the body registers several degrees above or below this point, a physician should be consulted immediately. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Edited by Henry