noun
- An official written record of names or events or transactions.
- synonyms: registry
- 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.
- synonyms: cash register
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"
- synonyms: file
- Enroll to vote.
- usage: "register for an election"
- Be aware of.
- usage: "Did you register any change when I pressed the button"
- synonyms: record
- 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.
- synonyms: cross-file
- 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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