register
Nouns
- (n) an official written record of names or events or transactions registry,
- (n) (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
- (n) a book in which names and transactions are listed
- (n) (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
- (n) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
- (n) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
- (n) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill cash register,
Verbs
- (v) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
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(v) record in a public office or in a court of law
- file for divorce
- file a complaint
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(v) enroll to vote
- register for an election
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(v) be aware of
- Did you register any change when I pressed the button?
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(v) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero
- The gauge read "empty"
- (v) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties cross-file,
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(v) show in one's face
- Her surprise did not register
- (v) manipulate the registers of an organ
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(v) send by registered mail
- I'd like to register this letter
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(v) enter into someone's consciousness
- Did this event register in your parents' minds?