Definitions for Register

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Register reg·is·ter

Spelling: [rej-uh-ster]

IPA: /ˈrɛdʒ ə stər/

Register is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in Register (eegirrst).

Definitions for Register

noun

1. a book in which records of acts, events, names, etc., are kept.
2. a list or record of such acts, events, etc.
3. an entry in such a book, record, or list.
4. an official document issued to a merchant ship as evidence of its nationality.
5. registration or registry.
6. a mechanical device by which certain data are automatically recorded.
7. cash register.
8. Music. the compass or range of a voice or an instrument. a part of this range produced in the same way and having the same quality: (in an organ) a stop.
9. a device for controlling the flow of warmed air or the like through an opening, as from a duct to an interior, composed of a number of narrow, parallel blades, usually behind a grating, that may be adjusted so as to overlap and close the opening.
10. Photography. proper relationship between two plane surfaces in photography, as corresponding plates in photoengraving.
11. Printing. a precise adjustment or correspondence, as of lines, columns, etc., especially on the two sides of a leaf. correct relation or exact superimposition, as of colors in color printing.
12. a bookmark, especially a ribbon attached to the spine of a book.
13. Linguistics. a variety of language typically used in a specific type of communicative setting:
14. Computers. a high-speed storage location in the CPU, used to store a related string of bits, as a word or phrase.

verb (used with object)

1. to enter or cause to be entered formally in a register.
2. to cause (mail) to be recorded upon delivery to a post office for safeguarding against loss, theft, damage, etc., during transmission.
3. to enroll (a student, voter, etc.) in a school or course of study, on the voting rolls, etc.
4. to indicate by a record, as instruments do:
5. to indicate or show, as on a scale.
6. Printing. to adjust so as to secure exact correspondence; cause to be in register.
7. Military. to adjust (fire) on a known point.
8. to show (surprise, joy, anger, etc.), as by facial expression or by actions.
9. to document (a merchant ship engaged in foreign trade) by issuing a certificate of registry.

verb (used without object)

1. to enter one's name or cause it to be entered in a register; enroll:
2. to apply for and obtain inclusion of one's name on the list of voters.
3. to enroll in a school or course of study:
4. Printing. to be in register.
5. to show:
6. to have some effect; make some impression:

Origin of Register

1350-1400; Middle English registre Middle French, Old French Medieval Latin registrum, regestrum, alteration of Late Latin regesta catalog, list, noun use of neuter plural of Latin regestus,

Examples for Register

A pressure-gauge to register the depth of the sinker has been added by Sir William.

“They refused to register a case, saying the matter is out of their hands,” he told me.

Consider, the register itself is destroyed—the clergyman dead.

Nor are we told that she lost her job at a local nursing home after she tried to register to vote in 1964.

The fat man from behind the register had come to take his order.

He owned that the copy of the register had been found by Lilburne in a secret drawer.

I doubt Wills feels it is disgusting for pro-life activists to register voters at anti-abortion protests.

For example, under current law, every state resident can register to vote by mail.

Annie Lee Cooper, well played by Winfrey, is shown trying but failing to register to vote.

Gradually a new series of impressions began to register on Martin's brain.