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Webster 1913 Edition

Register

Reg′is-ter

(r?j′?s-t?r)
,
Noun.
[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
.]
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.
Shakespeare
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
,
Verb.
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.
Parish register
,
A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish.
Syn. – List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See
List
.

Reg′is-ter

(rĕj′ĭs-tẽr)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Registere
(-t?rd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Registering
.]
[Cf. F.
regisrer
,
exregistrer
, LL.
registrare
. See
Register
,
Noun.
]
1.
To 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.
Registered letter
,
a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care.

Reg′is-ter

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To enroll one’s name in a register.
2.
(Print.)
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Register

REG'ISTER

,
Noun.
[Low L. registrum, from regero, to set down in writing; re and gero, to carry.]
1.
A written account or entry of acts, judgments or proceedings, for preserving and conveying to future times an exact knowledge of transactions. The word appropriately denotes an official account of the proceedings of a public body, a prince, a legislature, a court an incorporated company and the like, and in this use it is synonymous with record. But in a lax sense, it signifies any account entered on paper to preserve the remembrance of what is done.
2.
The book in which a register or record is kept, as a parish register; also, a list, as the register of seamen.
3.
[Low L. registrarius.] The officer or person whose business is to write or enter in a book accounts of transactions, particularly of the acts and proceedings of courts or other public bodies; as the register of a court of probate; a register of deeds.
4.
In chimistry and the arts, an aperture with a lid, stopper or sliding plate, in a furnace.
stove, &c. for regulating the admission of air and the heat of the fire.
5.
The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
6.
In printing, the correspondence of columns on the opposite sides of the sheet.
7.
A sliding piece of wood, used as a stop in an organ.
Parish register, a book in which are recorded the baptisms of children and the marriages and burials of the parish.
Register ship, a ship which obtains permission to trade to the Spanish West Indies and is registered before sailing.

REG'ISTER

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To record; to write in a book for preserving an exact account of facts and proceedings. The Greeks and Romans registered the names of all children born.
2.
To enroll; to enter in a list.

Definition 2024

Register

Register

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German

Noun

Register n ‎(genitive Registers, plural Register)

  1. register (formal recording of names, events, transactions etc.)

register

register

See also: Register

English

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Noun

register ‎(plural registers)

  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.
    • Shakespeare
      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 device that automatically records a quantity.
  8. The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
  9. (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
  10. (computing) 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.
    • 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications (page 47)
      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.
    • 2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition (page 90)
      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.
  11. (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins and colors.
  12. (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
  13. (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
  14. (music) An organ stop.
  15. (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context
    • My ex-boss used "let go", in the euphemistic register, when he sacked me.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 5, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 275:
      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).
  16. A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct.
  17. (chiefly US) short form for cash register

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Translations

entry in such a book

Verb

register ‎(third-person singular simple present registers, present participle registering, simple past and past participle registered)

  1. (transitive) To enter in a register.
  2. (transitive) To enroll, especially to vote.
    • 2008, Barack Obama, Letter to Vibe Magazine
      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.
    • 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
      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.
    • 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore Chapter VII
      In every way dinner proved up beyond my expectations, and I registered a note that the cook, whoever or whatever he might be, was a capable man at his trade.
  4. (transitive) To buy the full version of a trial software.
    This is a trial version, and is going to expire in 30 days! Please register!
  5. (transitive) To express outward signs.
  6. (transitive, mail) To record officially and handle specially.
  7. (transitive, printing) To adjust so as to be properly aligned.
  8. (intransitive) To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
  9. (intransitive) To enroll as a student.
  10. (intransitive) To make an impression.
  11. (intransitive) To be in proper alignment.
  12. (law) To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.

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References

  • register in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • register in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin registrum

Noun

register n ‎(definite singular registeret or registret, indefinite plural register or registre, definite plural registra or registrene)

  1. a register (list or record)
  2. (music) a register (voice range in singing; part of an organ)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin registrum

Noun

register n ‎(definite singular registeret, indefinite plural register, definite plural registera)

  1. a register (list or record)
  2. (music) a register (voice range in singing; part of an organ)

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Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɛˈjɪstɛr/

Noun

register n

  1. a register, a list, an index, a catalog, a directory, a database
  2. a machine that keeps a register, a cash register

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Declension

Inflection of register 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative register registret register registren
Genitive registers registrets registers registrens

Etymology

From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta ‎(“list, items recorded”), from Latin regerere ‎(“to record, to carry back”), from re- + gerere ‎(“to carry, bear”). Compare Latin registoria ‎(“a treasurer”). Some senses influenced by association with Latin regere ‎(“to rule”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛdʒ.ɪst.ɜː(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛdʒɪstɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(r)

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