Synonyms:
register, registry
Meaning: an official written record of names or events or transactions
Synonyms:
register
Meaning: (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
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
register
Meaning: record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
Synonyms:
file, register
Meaning: record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"
Synonyms:
register
Meaning: enroll to vote; "register for an election"
Synonyms:
record, register
Meaning: be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?"
Synonyms:
read, register, show, record
Meaning: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
Synonyms:
cross-file, register
Meaning: have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
Usage examples
The Prison Register.
"I knew she was in the house, because I saw her name in the hotel book last night when I went to register ours."
"Thanks," said the latter, closing the register with a slam, "I have all I want; now it is for me to perform my promise.
He was no longer astonished when he searched on to find in the register this note, placed in a bracket against his name:--
It swung itself into the higher register, where it came to a stop before A major, just as the introduction stopped before C major.
To emphasize the importance of these effects it is only necessary to recall that the constellations register the oldest traditions of our race.
I do not know these enemies, not having sufficient materials at my disposal for a register of the parasites; but, from indications gathered elsewhere, I suspect them.
Feeling braced up by this unexpected tonic to his spiritual depression, Calliope executed a fortissimo note from his upper register, and returned the fire like an echo.
"Mr. Steele, I practised law in that state for a period of three years. All the records of the office and of the prison register are open to me. Over which of them should I waste my time?"
Ceremony performed, register signed, Lady Tippins escorted out of sacred edifice by Veneering, carriages rolling back to Stucconia, servants with favours and flowers, Veneering's house reached, drawing-rooms most magnificent.