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Register
Reg′is-ter
(r?j′?s-t?r)
, Noun.
1.
A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the
register
of your own. Shakespeare
2.
(Com.)
(a)
A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.
(b)
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.
3.
[Cf. LL.
registrarius
. Cf. Regisrar
.] 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 deeds4.
That which registers or records.
Specifically: (a)
(Mech.)
A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.
(b)
(Teleg.)
The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.
(c)
A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
5.
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.
6.
(Print.)
(a)
The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
(b)
The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.
(c)
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 2.
Register
, Verb.
I.
7.
(Mus.)
(a)
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
☞ In respect to the vocal tones, the thick register properly extends below from the F on the lower space of the treble staff. The thin register extends an octave above this. The small register is above the thin. The voice in the thick register is called the chest voice; in the thin, the head voice. Falsetto is a kind off voice, of a thin, shrull quality, made by using the mechanism of the upper thin register for tones below the proper limit on the scale.
E. Behnke.
(b)
A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
Parish register
, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish.
Syn. – List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See
List
. Reg′is-ter
(rĕj′ĭs-tẽr)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Registere
(-t?rd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Registering
.] 1.
To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
2.
To enroll; to enter in a list.
Such follow him as shall be
registered
. Milton.
Registered letter
, a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care.
Reg′is-ter
,Verb.
I.
1.
To enroll one’s name in a register.
2.
(Print.)
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. Webster 1828 Edition
Register
REG'ISTER
,Noun.
1.
A written account or entry of acts, judgments or proceedings, for preserving and conveying to future times an exact knowledge of transactions. The word appropriately denotes an official account of the proceedings of a public body, a prince, a legislature, a court an incorporated company and the like, and in this use it is synonymous with record. But in a lax sense, it signifies any account entered on paper to preserve the remembrance of what is done.2.
The book in which a register or record is kept, as a parish register; also, a list, as the register of seamen.3.
[Low L. registrarius.] The officer or person whose business is to write or enter in a book accounts of transactions, particularly of the acts and proceedings of courts or other public bodies; as the register of a court of probate; a register of deeds.4.
In chimistry and the arts, an aperture with a lid, stopper or sliding plate, in a furnace.stove, &c. for regulating the admission of air and the heat of the fire.
5.
The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.6.
In printing, the correspondence of columns on the opposite sides of the sheet.7.
A sliding piece of wood, used as a stop in an organ.Parish register, a book in which are recorded the baptisms of children and the marriages and burials of the parish.
Register ship, a ship which obtains permission to trade to the Spanish West Indies and is registered before sailing.
REG'ISTER
,Verb.
T.
1.
To record; to write in a book for preserving an exact account of facts and proceedings. The Greeks and Romans registered the names of all children born.2.
To enroll; to enter in a list.