register

register is a 8-letter English word with 35 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 35 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
2. noun. A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.
3. noun. 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. 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. That which registers or records.
6. noun. A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.
7. noun. The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.
8. noun. A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
9. noun. 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. The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
11. noun. The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.
12. noun. 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. intransitive verb. 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.
14. intransitive verb. A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
15. noun. To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
16. noun. To enroll; to enter in a list.
17. intransitive verb. To enroll one's name in a register.
18. intransitive verb. 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.
19. noun. a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
20. noun. a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
21. noun. an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
22. 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
23. 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
24. noun. an official written record of names or events or transactions

    Synonyms: registry

25. noun. a book in which names and transactions are listed
26. verb. enter into someone's consciousness

    "Did this event register in your parents' minds?"

27. verb. indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments

    "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"

    "The gauge read `empty'"

    Synonyms: read, record, show

28. verb. record in a public office or in a court of law

    "file for divorce"

    "file a complaint"

    Synonyms: file

29. verb. send by registered mail

    "I'd like to register this letter"

30. verb. manipulate the registers of an organ
31. verb. be aware of

    "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"

    Synonyms: record

32. verb. show in one's face

    "Her surprise did not register"

33. verb. enroll to vote

    "register for an election"

34. verb. record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
35. verb. have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties

Synonyms

registry, read, record, show, file

Common word forms

registers, registered, registerer, registering, registerable

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