register

noun registers · registre

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. 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. The division of the field into an upper and lower register, with decorative motifs in the upper register and a scene with figures in the lower register, as here, is, as has been mentioned, characteristic of Syrian seals from the early second millennium.
8. A device that automatically records a quantity.
9. The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
10. A list of received calls in a phone set.
11. 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. 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.
12. The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
13. The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
14. The range of a voice or instrument.
15. An organ stop.
16. 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. No. 1 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air. No. 2 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air.
18. US, abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of cash register

verb registers · registering · registered · registre

1. transitive To enter in a register; to enlist.

   Similar: enroll, put down, catalogue, enlist, induct, enscroll, put on, register, tabulate

2. transitive To sign-up, especially to vote. I am running for President to take this country in a new direction. But I can’t do it alone. I need you. Whether it’s the first time, or the first time in a long time, I need you to register and vote on November 4th.
3. transitive To record, especially in writing. Tottenham, who lost William Gallas to injury before the end, struggled to find any sort of response and did not register a single shot on target.
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. Members of Boston's lesbian and gay community participated in the protest to register anger at the hotel's exploitative treatment of women workers.
6. transitive To record officially and handle specially.
7. especially, transitive 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. 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. The slightly smaller hind print may overlap but seldom registers precisely in the front track.
11. To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.
12. transitive To perceive or comprehend; pick up on. I did not register that look to mean anything more than an innocent, friendly smile.
13. intransitive To occur; become realised or noticed; dawn on. It did not register with me at the time that he'd end up betraying me, making off with all my savings.

Similar: reserve, schedule, enroll, book · Opposite: unregister, deregister

proper noun Regester

1. A surname.