Meaning of Register | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
3. A book of such entries.
4. An entry in such a book.
5. The act of registering.
6. 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 evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
7. One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
8. A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.
9. A device that automatically records a quantity.
10. The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
11. A list of received calls in a phone set.
12. A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations.
13. The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
14. The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
15. The range of a voice or instrument.
16. An organ stop.
17. A style of a language used in a particular context.
18. A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
19. Ellipsis of cash register.
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

Examples

“The teacher took the register by calling out each child's name.”

“As you have one eye upon my follies, […] turn another into the register of your own.”

“a register of deeds”

“The division of the field into an upper and lower register, with decorative motifs in the upper register and a scene with figures in the lower register, as here, is, as has been mentioned, characteristic of Syrian seals from the early second millennium.”

“The east wall is decorated in raised relief with two registers of scenes above a dado showing a northward fecundity figure procession.”

“The reverse side is divided into three registers. In the first register is the name of Narmer represented as a fish and a chisel inscribed in the serekh.”

“When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.”

“If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.”

“We rewrote certain communications templates to use a more formal register.”

“It seems equally clear that the ‘Complement + Prepositionʼ order illustrated in (172) (a) is likewise highly marked, and hence subject to heavy restrictions on its use. And sure enough, this does indeed seem to be the case: for one thing, forms such as thereafter, herein, whereby are stylistically highly marked (e.g. they are only used in particular registers such as legal language).”

“While e-memos are less formal than the memos discussed [above], they still need to be professional in appearance and in register, that is, in the level of formality.”

“No. 1 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air. No. 2 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air.”

“The remaining ceiling register is connected with the main vent shaft containing the smokepipe. Each of the ceiling registers in the lecture hall is controlled by a damper operated by a drain in the boilerroom.”

“The Ideal Wall Register is not a receptacle for the accumulation of dirt. It avoids the necessity of cutting carpets. It is absolutely fireproof.”

“He went up to the room he shared with Buddy and opened the hot-air register so he could hear what his mother did next.”

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