register
nounUK /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/ · CA, US /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stɚ/
Etymology From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta (“list, items recorded”), from Latin regerō (“to record, to carry back”), from re- + gerō (“to carry, bear”). Compare Latin registoria (“a treasurer”). Some senses influenced by association with unrelated Latin regō (“to rule”).
18 senses
- 1A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
- 2A book of such entries.
- 3An entry in such a book.
- 4The act of registering.
- 5A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a…
- 6One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a…
- 7A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical)…
- 8A device that automatically records a quantity.
- 9The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically…
- 10A list of received calls in a phone set.
- 11A small unit of very fast memory that is directly…
- 12The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
- 13The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
- 14The range of a voice or instrument.
- 15An organ stop.
- 16A style of a language used in a particular context.
- 17A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable…
- 18Ellipsis of cash register.
A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
- The teacher took the register by calling out each child's name.
A book of such entries.
- As you have one eye upon my follies, […] turn another into the register of your own.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
An entry in such a book.
The act of registering.
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.
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
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.1984, Beatrice Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, page 70:
- The east wall is decorated in raised relief with two registers of scenes above a dado showing a northward fecundity figure procession.1989, Eleni Vassilika, Ptolemaic Philae, page 76:
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- The reverse side is divided into three registers. In the first register is the name of Narmer represented as a fish and a chisel inscribed in the serekh.2005, Abeer El-Shahawy, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo: A Walk Through the Alleys of Ancient Egypt, page 23:
A device that automatically records a quantity.
Communications, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Telecommunications The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
Communications, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Telecommunications A list of received calls in a phone set.
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:
- If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90:
Media, Printing, Publishing The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
Media, Printing, Publishing The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music The range of a voice or instrument.
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music An organ stop.
Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A style of a language used in a particular context.
- We rewrote certain communications templates to use a more formal register.
- It seems equally clear that the ‘Complement + Prepositionʼ order illustrated in (172) (a) is likewise highly marked, and hence subject to heavy restrictions on its use. And sure enough, this does indeed seem to be the case: for one thing, forms such as thereafter, herein, whereby are stylistically highly marked (e.g. they are only used in particular registers such as legal language).1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 5, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 275:
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- While e-memos are less formal than the memos discussed [above], they still need to be professional in appearance and in register, that is, in the level of formality.2021, Laurel Currie Oates, Anne Enquist, Jeremy Francis, chapter 19, in The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing (8th Edition), Wolters Kluwer, page 278:
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.1891, Anson Oliver Kittredge, The Metal Worker Essays on House Heating by Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air: With Introduction and Tabular Comparisons, page 22:
- The remaining ceiling register is connected with the main vent shaft containing the smokepipe. Each of the ceiling registers in the lecture hall is controlled by a damper operated by a drain in the boilerroom.1897, Edward J. Mehren, Henry Coddington Meyer, John M. Goodell, Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer, page 102:
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- The Ideal Wall Register is not a receptacle for the accumulation of dirt. It avoids the necessity of cutting carpets. It is absolutely fireproof.1906, Architectural File, page 543:
- He went up to the room he shared with Buddy and opened the hot-air register so he could hear what his mother did next.1984, Stephen King, Gramma:
US, Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of cash register.
- Derived terms
37 terms
bell register, branch register, caregiver register, cash register, companies register, company register, electoral register, enregister, Federal Register, flageolet register, flute register, georegister, index register, land register, metaregister, nonconformist register, nonregister, parish register, pen register, property register, quantum register, quregister, register file, register grate, registerial, register office, register plate, registership, register ton, register variable, registration, registry, shift register, subregister, take the register, unlimited register machine, whistle register- Hyponyms
- cash register, parish register