Register, n. [OE. registre, F. registre, LL. registrum,regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr. regerere, regestum, to carry back, to register; pref. re- re- + gerere to carry. See Jest, and cf. Regest.].

A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule. [1913 Webster]
"As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own." [1913 Webster]
A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
That which registers or records. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
" 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." E. Behnke. [1913 Webster]

Parish register, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish.

Syn. -- List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See List.

Register, v. t. [Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See Register, n.].

To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service. [1913 Webster]
To enroll; to enter in a list. [1913 Webster]
"Such follow him as shall be registered." [1913 Webster]
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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.

To enroll one's name in a register. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Register, n. & v.
--n.
1 an official list e.g. of births, marriages, and deaths, of shipping, of professionally qualified persons, or of qualified voters in a constituency.
2 a book in which items are recorded for reference.
3 a device recording speed, force, etc.
4 (in electronic devices) a location in a store of data, used for a specific purpose and with quick access time.
5 a the compass of a voice or instrument. b a part of this compass (lower register).
6 an adjustable plate for widening or narrowing an opening and regulating a draught, esp. in a fire-grate.
7 a a set of organ pipes. b a sliding device controlling this.
8 = cash register (see CASH(1)).
9 Linguistics each of several forms of a language (colloquial, formal, literary, etc.) usually used in particular circumstances.
10 Printing the exact correspondence of the position of printed matter on the two sides of a leaf.
11 Printing & Photog. the correspondence of the position of colour-components in a printed positive.
--v.
1 tr. set down (a name, fact, etc.) formally; record in writing.
2 tr. make a mental note of; notice.
3 tr. enter or cause to be entered in a particular register.
4 tr. entrust (a letter etc.) to a post office for transmission by registered post.
5 intr. & refl. put one's name on a register, esp. as an eligible voter or as a guest in a register kept by a hotel etc.
6 tr. (of an instrument) record automatically; indicate.
7 a tr. express (an emotion) facially or by gesture (registered surprise). b intr. (of an emotion) show in a person's face or gestures.
8 intr. make an impression on a person's mind (did not register at all).
9 intr. & tr. Printing correspond or cause to correspond exactly in position.

Idiom

registered nurse a nurse with a State certificate of competence. registered post a postal procedure with special precautions for safety and for compensation in case of loss. register office Brit. a State office where civil marriages are conducted and births, marriages, and deaths are recorded with the issue of certificates.

Usage

The name in official use, and generally preferred to registry office.

Derivative

registrable adj.

Etymology

ME & OF regestre, registre or med.L regestrum, registrum, alt. of regestum f. LL regesta things recorded (as RE-, L gerere gest- carry)

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THESAURUS

Register

English horn, French pitch, accord, account, account book, accountant, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, act, act as foil, active list, adversaria, advise, agree, aide-memoire, amanuensis, annals, annotation, answer to, appear, archives, archivist, arm, armor, assail the ear, assent, assort with, balance sheet, bank ledger, bankbook, barnstorm, bassoon, be consistent, be glimpsed, be heard, be of one, be uniform with, betray, blacklist, bless, block flute, bombard, book, booking, bookkeeper, books, bound, bourdon, calendar, card ledger, caress the ear, carry, carve, cash register, cashbook, catalog, cataloging, catalogue, catch a likeness, cello, chalk, chalk up, champion, character, characterize, chart, check, check in, check sheet, checklist, chime, chromatic scale, chronicle, chronicling, chronology, civil list, claribel, clarinet, clarion, classical pitch, clerk, cloak, clock card, cohere, coincide, come home to, come out, communicate, compass, compass about, concert flute, concur, condition, confine, conform, conform with, conserve, consist with, contact, contain, cooperate, copyright, cornet, cornopean, correspond, correspondence, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, cover, cromorna, cushion, cut, cymbel, date slip, datebook, dawn on, daybook, defend, delineate, depict, depth, diagram, diapason, diary, directory, discipline, display, divulge, docket, documentalist, documentation, dodecuple scale, dovetail, draw, draw the line, dulciana, emote, emotionalize, engrave, engraver, enharmonic scale, enlistment, enroll, enrollment, enscroll, ensure, enter, entering, entry, enumerate, enumeration, exhibit, express, factory ledger, fall in together, fence, fend, file, filing clerk, fill out, fit together, flute stop, footnote, foundation stop, fourniture, gain a hearing, gamba, gamut, gedeckt, gemshorn, get across, get over, get through to, get to, get top billing, go together, go with, grave, great scale, guarantee, guard, hang together, harbor, harmonic flute, harmonize, haven, hedge about, height, high pitch, history, hit, hit off, hold together, hybrid stop, impanel, impanelment, impress, incise, index, indexing, indicate, inscribe, inscribing, inscription, insert, insertion, insure, interlock, intersect, inventory, inventorying, item, itemization, itemize, items, jibe, jot down, jotting, journal, keep, keep alive, keep from harm, keep intact, keep inviolate, keep safe, keep score, keep up, key, koppel flute, larigot, ledger, letters, librarian, limit, limn, list, listing, lock, log, logbook, logging, low pitch, maintain, major scale, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make an impression, make known, make oneself heard, make out, make safe, manifest, map, marginal note, marginalia, mark, mark down, marker, match, matriculate, matriculation, measure, melodia, melodic minor, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, mime, minor scale, minute, minutes, mixture, moderate, mutation stop, narrow, nazard, nestle, new philharmonic pitch, not destroy, not endanger, not expend, not use up, not waste, notary, notary public, notate, notation, note, note down, oboe, occur to, octave, octave scale, organ stop, overlap, paint, pantomime, parallel, passbook, patent, patter, penetrate, pentatonic scale, perform, philharmonic pitch, philosophical pitch, piccolo, picture, picturize, pigeonhole, pipe roll, pitch, place upon record, play, play the lead, playact, plein jeu, point to, police, poll, portray, posaune, post, post up, posting, preserve, principal, print, program, protect, prothonotary, purchase ledger, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, qualify, quint, quintaten, radius, range, rank, ranket, reach, reach the ear, read, record, record book, record clerk, record keeping, recordation, recorder, recording, recording instruments, recordist, reduce to writing, reed stop, reflect, register with, registrar, registration, registry, relic, remains, reminder, render, repertory, report, represent, respond to, restrain, restrict, retired list, reveal, ride shotgun for, rohr flute, roll, roll call, rolls, roster, rota, rub, safeguard, sales journal, sales ledger, save, say, scale, scant, schedule, schematize, scholia, scholium, scope, score, scorekeeper, scorer, screen, scribe, scrivener, scroll, secretary, secure, sesquialtera, set down, shawm, shelter, shield, show, shroud, sick list, sign in, sign on, sing in chorus, sink in, sketch, soak in, sort with, spare, specialize, specify, spectrum, spitz flute, square, square with, stand together, standard pitch, star, steal the show, stenographer, stint, stock ledger, stonecutter, stooge, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, stores ledger, straiten, stretch, string diapason, string stop, support, suspense ledger, sustain, sweep, symbolize, table, tabulate, tabulation, take a rubbing, take down, take note of, tally, tally sheet, tape, tape-record, temperament, tierce, till, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timekeeper, timetable, token, tonality, tone, trace, trace out, trace over, transmit, tread the boards, tremolo, trombone, troupe, trumpet, tune, tuning, twelfth, unda maris, underwrite, uphold, upstage, vestige, vibrato, videotape, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana, whole-tone scale, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

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Register

Arrangement

N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.

VB reduce to order, bring into order, introduce order into, rally, arrange, dispose, place, form, put in order, set in order, place in order, set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal, cast the parts, assign the parts, dispose of, assign places to, assort, sort, sift, riddle, put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array, apportion, class, classify, divide, file, string together, thread, register, catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade, methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix, unravel, disentangle, ravel, card, disembroil, feaze.

List

N list, catalog, catalogue, inventory, register, account, bill, bill of costs, terrier, tally, listing, itemization, atlas, book, ledger, catalogue raisonne, tableau, invoice, bill of lading, prospectus, bill of fare, menu, carte, score, census, statistics, returns, contents, table of contents, outline, synopsis, checklist, table, chart, database, index, inverted file, word list, concordance, dictionary, lexicon, vocabulary, glossary, thesaurus, file, card index, card file, rolodex, address book, Red book, Blue book, Domesday book, cadastre, directory, gazetter, almanac, army list, clergy list, civil service list, navy list, Almanach de Gotha, cadaster, Lloyd's register, nautical almanac, who's who, Guiness's Book of World Records, roll, check roll, checker roll, bead roll, muster roll, muster book, roster, panel, jury list, cartulary, diptych, cadastral.

Chronometry

N chronometry, horometry, horology, date, epoch, style, era, almanac, calendar, ephemeris, register, registry, chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram, clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio, watch, wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch, atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock, chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph, repeater, timekeeper, timepiece, dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra, ghurry, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper, annalist, calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year, chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical, cinquecento, quattrocento, trecento, o'clock.

VB fix the time, mark the time, date, register, chronicle, measure time, beat time, mark time, bear date, synchronize watches.

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.

VB record, put on record, place on record, chronicle, calendar, hand down to posterity, keep up the memory, commemorate, report, write, commit to writing, reduce to writing, put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and white, put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down, note, minute, put on paper, take note, make a note, take minute, take memorandum, make a return, mark, sign, enter, book, post, post up, insert, make an entry of, mark off, tick off, register, enroll, inscroll, file, burn into memory, carve in stone.

Recorder

N recorder, notary, clerk, registrar, registrary, register, prothonotary, amanuensis, secretary, scribe, babu, remembrancer, bookkeeper, custos rotulorum, Master of the Rolls, annalist, historian, historiographer, chronicler, journalist, biographer, antiquary, memorialist, interviewer.

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