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Register   /rˈɛdʒɪstər/   Listen
noun
Register  n.  
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."
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.
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. Note: 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.
(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.
Synonyms: List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See List.


verb
Register  v. t.  (past & past part. registere; pres. part. registering)  
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."
3.
(Securities) To enter the name of the owner of (a share of stock, a bond, or other security) in a register, or record book. A registered security is transferable only on the written assignment of the owner of record and on surrender of his bond, stock certificate, or the like.
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.


Register  v. 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.





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"Register" Quotes from Famous Books



... which, little by little, would make it an instrument capable of registering facts and effecting security. His eyes—those piercing eyes which were to excel in raking the heavens and perceiving the first trace of an enemy at incalculable distances—though they could only register his motion in relation to the earth and not the air, could, at all events, inform him of the slightest deviations from the horizontal in the three dimensions: namely, straightness of direction, lateral and longitudinal horizontality, and accurately appreciate angular variations. ...
— Georges Guynemer - Knight of the Air • Henry Bordeaux
... spirits probably heightened the effect of her companion's gravity, and the contrast daily presented could not fail to arrest Mr. Huntingdon's attention. On arriving at Montreal the girls were left for a few moments in the parlour of the hotel, while Mr. Huntingdon went to register their names. Irene and Louisa stood by the window looking out into the street, when a happy, ...
— Macaria • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... when he entered the principal hotel of the little town of Whitehorse at the terminus of the railway. It was just across the street from the station, and when he arrived at the office she was there before him, and about to enter her name in the hotel register. He stood by her side and watched her write. It was a firm sun-browned hand that held the pen, and she wrote in a rapid business-like way. "Glen Weston" were the only words Reynolds saw there as he wrote his own name a minute later below hers. She had not even mentioned where she ...
— Glen of the High North • H. A. Cody
... Certificate, that he had measured out so much Land and the Bounds, a Deed is prepared of Course, by the Secretary, which is sign'd by the Governor and the Lords Proprietors Deputies, and the Proprietors Seal affix'd to it, and register'd in the Secretaries Office, which is a good Coveyance in Law of the Land therein mention'd, to the Party ...
— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson
... Railroad of the new transcontinental line into the Indian country. There were handsome women a-plenty in the East; and of access, also, to a youth of family and parts. I had pictures of the same in my social register. A man does not attain to twenty-five years without having accomplished a few pages of the heart book. Nevertheless all such pages were—or had seemed to be—wholly retrospective now, for here I was, advised by the physicians to "go West," meaning by this not simply the one-time ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin


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