English
register
see also: Register
Etymology

From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta, from Latin regero, from re- + gerō.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪs.tə/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪs.tɚ/
Noun

register (plural registers)

  1. A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
    The teacher took the register by calling out each child's name.
  2. A book of such entries.
    • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
      As you have one eye upon my follies, […] turn another into the register of your own.
  3. An entry in such a book.
  4. The act of registering.
  5. 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 evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
  6. One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
    a register of deeds
  7. A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.
    • 2005, Abeer El-Shahawy, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo: A Walk Through the Alleys of Ancient Egypt, page 23:
      The reverse side is divided into three registers. In the first register is the name of Narmer represented as a fish and a chisel inscribed in the serekh.
  8. A device that automatically records a quantity.
  9. (telecommunications) The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
  10. (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
  11. (computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs or intermediate results of computations.
    • 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:
      When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.
    • 2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90:
      If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.
  12. (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins and colors.
  13. (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
  14. (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
  15. (music) An organ stop.
  16. (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
    We rewrote certain communications templates to use a more formal register.
  17. A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
    • 1891, Anson Oliver Kittredge, The Metal Worker Essays on House Heating by Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air: With Introduction and Tabular Comparisons, page 22:
      No. 1 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air. No. 2 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air.
    • 1897, Edward J. Mehren, Henry Coddington Meyer, John M. Goodell, Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer, page 102:
      The remaining ceiling register is connected with the main vent shaft containing the smokepipe. Each of the ceiling registers in the lecture hall is controlled by a damper operated by a drain in the boilerroom.
    • 1906, Architectural File, page 543:
      The Ideal Wall Register is not a receptacle for the accumulation of dirt. It avoids the necessity of cutting carpets. It is absolutely fireproof.
    • 1984, Stephen King, Gramma:
      He went up to the room he shared with Buddy and opened the hot-air register so he could hear what his mother did next.
  18. (mostly, US) Clipping of cash register
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register (registers, present participle registering; simple past and past participle registered)

  1. (transitive) To enter in a register; to enlist.
    Synonyms: enroll, put down, Thesaurus:enlist
  2. (transitive) To sign-up, especially to vote.
  3. (transitive) To record, especially in writing.
  4. (ambitransitive) To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment.
    This is a trial version, and will expire in 30 days. Please register!
  5. (transitive) To express outward signs.
  6. (transitive, mail) To record officially and handle specially.
  7. (transitive, especially, printing) To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned.
  8. (intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
    They registered for school.
  9. (intransitive) To make an impression.
    • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 9 ↗:
      You’re not listening. You’ve gone off inside your head on one of your riffs and the plain fact that your son is ill hasn’t even registered. The plain fact that I have to wake up every morning and listen to him asking—unbearably asking—why his father isn’t home hasn’t registered.
  10. (intransitive) To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly.
  11. (legal) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.
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Register
Proper noun
  1. Surname.


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