Meaning & Definition of Register in English
Register
noun
1. An official written record of names or events or transactions
- register,
- registry
2. (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
- register
3. A book in which names and transactions are listed
- register
4. (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
- register
5. An air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
- register
6. A regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
- register
7. A cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions
- Used in shops to add up the bill
- cash register,
- register
verb
1. Record in writing
- Enter into a book of names or events or transactions
- register
2. Record in a public office or in a court of law
- "File for divorce"
- "File a complaint"
- file,
- register
3. Enroll to vote
- "Register for an election"
- register
4. Be aware of
- "Did you register any change when i pressed the button?"
- record,
- register
5. Indicate a certain reading
- Of gauges and instruments
- "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"
- "The gauge read `empty'"
- read,
- register,
- show,
- record
6. Have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
- cross-file,
- register
7. Show in one's face
- "Her surprise did not register"
- register
8. Manipulate the registers of an organ
- register
9. Send by registered mail
- "I'd like to register this letter"
- register
10. Enter into someone's consciousness
- "Did this event register in your parents' minds?"
- register