Word: register Part of Speech: noun 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”). Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/, /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stɚ/, /ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ə.stɚ/, /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/, /ˈɹed͡ʒ.ə.stə/ 1. A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc. Example: The teacher took the register by calling out each child's name. 2. A book of such entries. Example: As you have one eye upon my follies, […] turn another into the register of your own. 3. An entry in such a book. 4. The act of registering. 5. 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. 6. One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events. Example: a register of deeds 7. A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections. Example: 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. Example: The east wall is decorated in raised relief with two registers of scenes above a dado showing a northward fecundity figure procession. 8. A device that automatically records a quantity. 9. The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received. 10. A list of received calls in a phone set. 11. 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. Example: 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. Example: 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. 12. The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors. 13. The inner part of the mould in which types are cast. 14. The range of a voice or instrument. 15. An organ stop. 16. A style of a language used in a particular context. Example: We rewrote certain communications templates to use a more formal register. Example: 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). 17. A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow. Example: No. 1 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air. No. 2 chamber, 1 8x12 side wall register for warm air. Example: 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. 18. Ellipsis of cash register. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis