register

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.

2. 2noun

   A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.

3. 3noun

   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. 4noun

   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. 5noun

   That which registers or records.

6. 6noun

   A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.

7. 7noun

   The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.

8. 8noun

   A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.

9. 9noun

   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. 10noun

    The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.

11. 11noun

    The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.

12. 12noun

    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. i. 2.

13. 13intransitive 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. 14intransitive verb

    A stop or set of pipes in an organ.

15. 15noun

    To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.

16. 16noun

    To enroll; to enter in a list.

17. 17intransitive verb

    To enroll one's name in a register.

18. 18intransitive 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. 19noun

    a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill

20. 20noun

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

21. 21noun

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

22. 22noun

    (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. 23noun

    (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. 24noun

    an official written record of names or events or transactions

    Synonyms

    registry
25. 25noun

    a book in which names and transactions are listed

26. 26verb

    enter into someone's consciousness

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

27. 27verb

    indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments

    "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"

    "The gauge read `empty'"

    Synonyms

    readrecordshow
28. 28verb

    record in a public office or in a court of law

    "file for divorce"

    "file a complaint"

    Synonyms

    file
29. 29verb

    send by registered mail

    "I'd like to register this letter"

30. 30verb

    manipulate the registers of an organ

31. 31verb

    be aware of

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

    Synonyms

    record
32. 32verb

    show in one's face

    "Her surprise did not register"

33. 33verb

    enroll to vote

    "register for an election"

34. 34verb

    record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions

35. 35verb

    have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties