1. Noun
A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
2. Noun
A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.
3. Noun
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 an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
4. Noun
One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds.
5. Noun
That which registers or records.
6. Noun
A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.
7. Noun
The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.
8. Noun
A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
9. Noun
A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation.
10. Noun
The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
11. Noun
The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.
12. Noun
The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2.
13. Verb
The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register.
14. Verb
A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
15. Noun
To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
16. Noun
To enroll; to enter in a list.
17. Verb
To enroll one's name in a register.
18. Verb
To correspond in relative position; as, two pages, columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary.
19. noun
The level and style of language used in a situation.
A variety of language chosen for a particular situation, audience or purpose.
20. Noun
(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
Vocabulary classified under Computing and technology
21. Noun
(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
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
22. Verb
have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
23. Verb
indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read ‘empty’"
Vocabulary classified under Research methods
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