What is the meaning of register?

noun

  • An official written record of names or events or transactions.
  • 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. (
  • A book in which names and transactions are listed.
  • 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)
  • An air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room.
  • A regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device.
  • A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill.

verb

  • Record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions.
  • Record in a public office or in a court of law.
    • usage: "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"
  • Enroll to vote.
    • usage: "register for an election"
  • Be aware of.
    • usage: "Did you register any change when I pressed the button"
  • Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.
    • usage: "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
  • Have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties.
  • Show in one's face.
    • usage: "Her surprise did not register"
  • Manipulate the registers of an organ.
  • Send by registered mail.
    • usage: "I'd like to register this letter"
  • Enter into someone's consciousness.
    • usage: "Did this event register in your parents' minds"
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