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Definitions of 'register' Wordnet 

1. (noun) register, registry
an official written record of names or events or transactions

2. (noun) register
(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

3. (noun) register
a book in which names and transactions are listed

4. (noun) register
(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

5. (noun) register
an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room

6. (noun) register
a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device

7. (verb) cash register, register
a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill

8. (verb) register
record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions

9. (verb) file, register
record in a public office or in a court of law
"file for divorce"; "file a complaint"

10. (verb) register
enroll to vote
"register for an election"

11. (verb) record, register
be aware of
"Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"

12. (verb) read, register, show, record
indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
"The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"

13. (verb) cross-file, register
have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties

14. (verb) register
show in one's face
"Her surprise did not register"

15. (verb) register
manipulate the registers of an organ

16. (verb) register
send by registered mail
"I'd like to register this letter"

17. (verb) register
enter into someone's consciousness
"Did this event register in your parents' minds?"


Definitions of 'register' Webster 1913 Dictionary 

1. (noun) register
a written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule

2. (noun) register
a record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district

3. (noun) register
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

4. (noun) register
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

5. (noun) register
that which registers or records

6. (noun) register
a contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process

7. (noun) register
the part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received

8. (noun) register
a machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale

9. (noun) register
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

10. (noun) register
the inner part of the mold in which types are cast

11. (noun) register
the correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet

12. (noun) register
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

13. (noun) register
to enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service

14. (noun) register
to enroll; to enter in a list

15. (verb) register
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

16. (verb) register
a stop or set of pipes in an organ

17. (verb) register
to enroll one's name in a register

18. (verb) register
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


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