register Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an official written record of names or events or transactions
    registry.
  2. 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
  3. noun a book in which names and transactions are listed
  4. 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
  5. noun an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
  6. noun a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
  7. noun a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
    cash register.
  8. verb record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
  9. verb record in a public office or in a court of law
    file.
    • file for divorce
    • file a complaint
  10. verb enroll to vote
    • register for an election
  11. verb be aware of
    record.
    • Did you register any change when I pressed the button?
  12. verb indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
    read; record; show.
    • The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero
    • The gauge read `empty'
  13. verb have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
    cross-file.
  14. verb show in one's face
    • Her surprise did not register
  15. verb manipulate the registers of an organ
  16. verb send by registered mail
    • I'd like to register this letter
  17. verb enter into someone's consciousness
    • Did this event register in your parents' minds?

WordNet

Reg"is*ter noun
Etymology
OE. registre, F. registre, LL. registrum,regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr. regerere, regestum, to carry back, to register; pref. re- re- + gerere to carry. See Jest, and cf. Regest.
Definitions
  1. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
    As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own. Shak.
  2. (Com.) (a) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. (b) 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.
  3. Cf. LL. registrarius. Cf. Regisrar. 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.
  4. That which registers or records. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process. (b) (Teleg.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. (c) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
  5. 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.
  6. (Print.) (a) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. (b) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. (c) 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.
  7. (Mus.) (a) 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. ✍ In respect to the vocal tones, the thick register properly extends below from the F on the lower space of the treble staff. The thin register extends an octave above this. The small register is above the thin. The voice in the thick register is called the chest voice; in the thin, the head voice. Falsetto is a kind off voice, of a thin, shrull quality, made by using the mechanism of the upper thin register for tones below the proper limit on the scale. E. Behnke. (b) A stop or set of pipes in an organ. Syn. -- List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See List.
Reg"is*ter transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See Register, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Registere present participle & verbal noun Registering
Definitions
  1. T enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
  2. To enroll; to enter in a list.
    Such follow him as shall be registered. Milton.
Reg"is*ter intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To enroll one's name in a register.
  2. (Print.) To correspond in ralative 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.

Webster 1913