an official written record of names or events or transactions
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(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
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a book in which names and transactions are listed
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(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
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an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
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a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
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a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
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record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
Register \Reg"is*ter\ (r?j"?s*t?r), 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}.] 1. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own. --Shak.
2. (Com.) (a) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. (b) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
3. [Cf. LL. registrarius. Cf. {Regisrar}.] 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.
4. That which registers or records. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process. (b) (Teleg.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. (c) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
5. 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.
6. (Print.) (a) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. (b) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. (c) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See {Register}, v. i. 2.
7. (Mus.) (a) 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.
Note: 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. (b) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
{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 \Reg"is*ter\, v. i. 1. To enroll one's name in a register.
2. (Print.) 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.
Register \Reg"is*ter\ (r[e^]j"[i^]s*t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Registere} (-t?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Registering}.] [Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See {Register}, n.] 1. To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
2. To enroll; to enter in a list.
Such follow him as shall be registered. --Milton.
3. (Securities) 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.
Lawmakers say the aim is to increase voter turnout and open the nation's elections to Americans unable to leave work and stand in line at City Hall or merely too forgetful to register 30 days in advance as required in some states.
Local journalists who work part-time for some of the world's large news organizations would be required to register if, as many do, they had more than one employer.
Mr. Stubblefield sought damages of more than $6 million and wanted the court to order Endotronics to register his 195,250 shares in the company so he could sell them before the end of a two-year holding period.
He also said that VAMO was owned by Mrs. Paisley, and that Mr. Galvin had served as an agent simply to register the company under Virginia law.
The plaintiffs demanded that AIPAC be forced to register as a public action committee and disclose its activities - a move that would have hampered behind-the-scenes lobbying with Congress and the administration.
The market has finally begun to register disquiet over political developments: witness yesterday's 3 per cent drop after China objected to plans for a new container terminal.
Similarly, the U.S. has agreed to register 21 Kuwaiti ships under its flag.
The programme tells how the Patriot missile system failed to intercept the last Scud fired in the war because one unit was undergoing maintenance and another failed to register a threat, so that 28 Americans were killed.
The change in policy came this week, when President Felix Houphouet-Boigny on Thursday approved a recommendation from his party to allow the opposition groups to register.
It says voters always use elections to the European Parliament to register protest against governments in midterm, and that the turnout of 36 percent is too low to shape lasting judgments.
Under Japanese patent law, U.S. companies can't protect innovations unless they register them within one year of the day they file for patent protection in the U.S.
Meanwhile, the News set up a Trump Phone Poll so readers could register their support for either Trump.
If rents are to be set according to recent deals in a particular area, there should be greater openness about those deals, perhaps through a national rent register.
It seems there is no need to register those free trips to Paris on the newly-opened Eurostar tunnel rail link. Apparently since every MP was offered the trip it does not count as a declarable interest.
'I want to see a proper register that allows land to be taken off it.'
Section 3(c)(1) of the act exempts any issuer, whatever its legal form, from having to register under that act if its securities are beneficially owned by 100 or fewer people.
Malta currently has the world's tenth largest shipping register.
Rowan has maintained that his son, Carl Jr., was rebuffed by police officials when he attempted to register the weapon that was used in the June 14 shooting.
Arias Calderon repeated accusations that the electoral register included 100,000 extra names and that out of a sampling of 3,000 recent deaths, the names of 27 percent of the dead were still on the register.
Arias Calderon repeated accusations that the electoral register included 100,000 extra names and that out of a sampling of 3,000 recent deaths, the names of 27 percent of the dead were still on the register.
Nikolai Kolesnik of the Soviet republic's Council on Religious Affairs said from Kiev that regional officials have decided Ukrainian Catholics could register with authorities like other religious groups.
Investors need not register with the government. Brokers' commissions are not fixed, and vary between 0.5 and 1 per cent, plus a 0.12 per cent stock exchange levy.
The smallest polling station in Sarawak had six names on its register.
They tighten curbs on reporting about opposition activity and require some journalists to register with the government.
As the $1.1 trillion federal budget goes, $1.2 billion normally would barely register a tick.
But Bryant is still pushing legislation to require foreign owners to register their major U.S. assets with the Commerce Department, including business, industrial, real estate and farm holdings.
Another main provision would require all arbitragers, who speculate in takeover stocks, to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission and would bring risk arbitrage under tighter supervision, according to a Proxmire aide.
Stores often keep a cup of pennies at the cash register so customers don't have to dig to the bottoms of their purses and pockets for lint-covered coins.
Association leaders said Tuesday they would appeal the court decision and resume strikes in the autumn if authorities still refuse to register the organization.
The government has promised general elections and allowed political parties to register, thus formally breaking the monopoly on power held by the Burma Socialist Program Party since 1962.