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  • English Word Register Definition A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
  • English Word Register Definition A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.
  • English Word Register Definition 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.
  • English Word Register Definition 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.
  • English Word Register Definition That which registers or records.
  • English Word Register Definition A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.
  • English Word Register Definition The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.
  • English Word Register Definition A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
  • English Word Register Definition 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.
  • English Word Register Definition The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.
  • English Word Register Definition The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.
  • English Word Register Definition 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.
  • English Word Register Definition 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.
  • English Word Register Definition A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
  • English Word Register Definition To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
  • English Word Register Definition To enroll; to enter in a list.
  • English Word Register Definition To enroll one's name in a register.
  • English Word Register Definition 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.
  • English Word Registered Definition of Register
  • English Word Registering Definition of Register
  • English Word Registering Definition Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
  • English Word Registership Definition The office of a register.
  • English Word Registrant Definition One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.
  • English Word Registrar Definition One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.
  • English Word Registrarship Definition The office of a registrar.
  • English Word Registrary Definition A registrar.
  • English Word Registrate Definition To register.
  • English Word Registration Definition The act of registering; registry; enrollment.
  • English Word Registration Definition The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
  • English Word Registry Definition The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.