register
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/
ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ə.stɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɛdʒɪsʈə(r)/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪˈdʒɪsʈə(r)/
Forms: form: registers
form: registre
Etymology: From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta (“list, items recorded”), from Latin regerō (“to record, to carry back”), from re- + gerō (“to carry, bear”). Compare Latin registoria (“a treasurer”). Some senses influenced by association with unrelated Latin regō (“to rule”).
Senses: examples: text: The teacher took the register by calling out each child's name.
glosses: A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
examples: text: As you have one eye upon my follies, […] turn another into the register of your own.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: A book of such entries.
glosses: An entry in such a book.
glosses: The act of registering.
glosses: 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.
examples: a register of deeds
glosses: One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1984, Beatrice Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, page 70:
text: The east wall is decorated in raised relief with two registers of scenes above a dado showing a northward fecundity figure procession.
ref: 1989, Eleni Vassilika, Ptolemaic Philae, page 76:
text: 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.
ref: 2005, Abeer El-Shahawy, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo: A Walk Through the Alleys of Ancient Egypt, page 23:
glosses: A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections.
glosses: A device that automatically records a quantity.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A list of received calls in a phone set.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:
text: 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.
ref: 2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The range of a voice or instrument.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An organ stop.
examples: text: We rewrote certain communications templates to use a more formal register.
text: 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).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 5, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 275:
text: 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.
ref: 2021, Laurel Currie Oates, Anne Enquist, Jeremy Francis, chapter 19, in The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing (8th Edition), Wolters Kluwer, page 278:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: lect
glosses: A style of a language used in a particular context.
examples: text: No. 1 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air. No. 2 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air.
ref: 1891, Anson Oliver Kittredge, The Metal Worker Essays on House Heating by Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air: With Introduction and Tabular Comparisons, page 22:
text: 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.
ref: 1897, Edward J. Mehren, Henry Coddington Meyer, John M. Goodell, Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer, page 102:
text: The Ideal Wall Register is not a receptacle for the accumulation of dirt. It avoids the necessity of cutting carpets. It is absolutely fireproof.
ref: 1906, Architectural File, page 543:
text: 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.
ref: 1984, Stephen King, Gramma:
glosses: A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
glosses: Ellipsis of cash register.
Hyponyms: cash register
parish register
Derived terms: bell register
branch register
caregiver register
cash register
companies register
company register
electoral register
enregister
Federal Register
flageolet register
flute register
georegister
index register
land register
metaregister
nonconformist register
nonregister
parish register
pen register
property register
quantum register
quregister
register grate
registerial
register office
register plate
registership
register ton
register variable
registration
registry
shift register
subregister
take the register
unlimited register machine
whistle register