register
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
media
printing
publishing
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: registers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: registering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: registered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: registered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: registre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To enter in a register; to enlist.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To sign-up, especially to vote.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I am running for President to take this country in a new direction. But I can’t do it alone. I need you. Whether it’s the first time, or the first time in a long time, I need you to register and vote on November 4th.
gloss: To record, especially in writing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tottenham, who lost William Gallas to injury before the end, struggled to find any sort of response and did not register a single shot on target.
In every way dinner proved up beyond my expectations, and I registered a note that the cook, whoever or whatever he might be, was a capable man at his trade.
gloss: To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: This is a trial version, and will expire in 30 days. Please register!
gloss: To express outward signs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Members of Boston's lesbian and gay community participated in the protest to register anger at the hotel's exploitative treatment of women workers.
gloss: To record officially and handle specially.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned.
pos: verb
tags: especially
transitive
gloss: To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They registered for school.
gloss: To make an impression.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You’re not listening. You’ve gone off inside your head on one of your riffs and the plain fact that your son is ill hasn’t even registered. The plain fact that I have to wake up every morning and listen to him asking—unbearably asking—why his father isn’t home hasn’t registered.
gloss: To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The slightly smaller hind print may overlap but seldom registers precisely in the front track.
[…] but cat tracks are slightly more staggered, and on each side the back foot registers directly on the track of the front foot.
gloss: To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial.
pos: verb
gloss: To perceive or comprehend; pick up on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I did not register that look to mean anything more than an innocent, friendly smile.
gloss: To occur; become realised or noticed; dawn on.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It did not register with me at the time that he'd end up betraying me, making off with all my savings.
Synonyms: reserve
schedule
enroll
book
Antonyms: unregister
deregister
Related words: registrar
registration
Derived words: registration
autoregister
auto-register
coregister
deregister
direct registering
inregister
mass register
misregister
nonregistered
nonregistering
preregister
registerable
registerability
registered trademark
registeree
registerer
registrable
registree
reregister
self-registering
unregister
unregistered
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