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register English

Meaning register meaning

What does register mean?
Definitions in simple English

register Verb

— If you register someone or something, you put their name on a list. I haven't registered for September classes yet. Please take a moment to register your software with the company. Our dog is registered with the city. — If you register a complaint, protest, etc. you make your opinion known formally. — If something doesn't register, you don't notice it. I knew I had something else on, but I guess it just didn't register when I made the appointment.

register Noun

— A register is an official list of names. On voting day, I found my name was not on the register and I couldn't vote. The government is reviewing the national register of births, deaths, and marriages. — A register is a particular style of language used by a certain group of people or in certain situations. Speeches are usually given in a very formal, almost written register. — A register is a particular range of notes. The piano plays arpeggi in higher registers, accompanying the clarinet that plays the melody in full-blooded lower middle registers. — A cash register is a machine in a shop that calculates total payment and holds money.

register

— verb record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions — verb (= file) record in a public office or in a court of law file for divorce file a complaint — verb enroll to vote register for an election — verb be aware of Did you register any change when I pressed the button? — noun an official written record of names or events or transactions — verb (= read, show) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero The gauge read 'empty' — 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 — verb (= cross-file) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties — verb show in one's face Her surprise did not register — verb manipulate the registers of an organ — verb enter into someone's consciousness Did this event register in your parents' minds? — verb send by registered mail I'd like to register this letter — noun a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device — noun an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room — 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 — noun a book in which names and transactions are listed — noun a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill

Synonyms register synonyms

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register English » English

record list enroll roll enter book write down sign up show log enlist registry registration note journal inscribe enrol catalogue account book index file ledger express note down cash register write take down slate sign in sheet roster represent matriculate mark join indicate document directory diary dialect cross-file chronicle account table subscribe statement stand for sign set down say

Topics register topics

What do people use register to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

Record
Language and thought Communication Say Voice

Speech style
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

List
Language and thought Think Opinion

Approve of something
States Time

Telling time

Conjugation register conjugation

How do you conjugate register?

register · verb

Examples register examples

How do I use register in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom caught Mary stealing money from the cash register.
When did they register the names of the members?
Please pay at the register.
There's a long line at every cash register.
No person by that name is listed in the register of the school.
This register is out of commission.
Tom caught Mary stealing his money from the cash register.
I'll soon register for a course in German.
My list of villains is getting shorter with every day I get older, and my register of fools more complete and longer.
Can you open a second register?
I will register for that class.
Tom was caught stealing money from the cash register.
Is it too late for us to register?
Hunger compelled the boy to steal money from the cash register.
The bandits demanded all money in the register.
The employee stole money from the cash register.
If you want to participate, you have to register.
Accessing foreign websites that didn't register with the government is illegal in Belarus.
Tom was accused of stealing money from the cash register.
Tom told me how to do it, but it didn't register.
Is this the latest model cash register?
Have you signed the register?
Be sure to register the letter.

Movie subtitles

Register.
The unmanned register-rocket H.32, equipped with automatic imaging-instruments.
In its nose-cone is located the egg-shaped register-chamber with the automated imaging-instruments.
Faced with the Register of Sailors, this people consisting of widows, orphans, parents who lost their sons, is swift at reacting.
The human cash register.
Will you kindly register?
You have to be in the social register to keep out of jail.
Now, Mrs. Glossop, before you register I'm very anxious to have just a few last words with you.
Will you please to register?
First to register gets discovery rights.
You're no man, but a cash register.
And if you wish to stay in my hotel, you have to register immediately.
Put it in the cash register before somebody steals it.
I want to register a complaint.
I see. You have to be in the social register to keep out of jail.
To the cash register, on the double!
They robbed the cash register too.
In the end she runs away with the cash register.
Good, then please register here.
Ladies and gentlemen, train is uphold and if you wish to stay in my hotel. you will have to register immediately.
The minute I'm out, the whole cast will re-register under their own names.
Well, I guess I'll go down and register.
I had a valet come and lay out your things. - Oh, thanks. I'll go down to register for you.
He said the tapeworm will have to register.
Hey, don't forget. Register.
We searched every register for the day after the sailing.
Maybe I could lend the young lady a nightgown. Will you please to register?
Will you register, please?
I just signed the hotel register.
I saw the register.
That's all very nice, but the best present we could give him is a bare-looking shop with nothing in it except money in the cash register.
He was standing behind a counter near Nick..who was slumped over the cash register.
Blood was still dripping into the open drawer of the cash register.

News and current affairs

For example, ensuring that women have equal rights to inherit, sign a contract, register a business, or open a bank account would cost little, but could have far-reaching economic benefits.
Our brains are primed to register such events; so on rare occasions the brain makes a mistake and reconstructs unrelated sounds (such as people talking indistinctly) into a false perception of the spoken name.
Another alternative would be to use the electoral register, a public database that the ECB could use independently of governments.
The numbers are stunning, particularly when you ask what does the state really do other than register a name and give out a tax number?
ACT is working to register voters, and MoveOn is getting more people engaged in the national debate over Bush's policies.
The Dublin Regulation, according to which the first EU country that a migrant reaches is obliged to register and process the migrant's application, has long been disregarded.
Refugees must register in the member country where they enter, but the Greek government cannot process the cases.
Migrants who do not register and live on the street are attacked by the hooligans of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party.
There is no provision for the Parliament to register even a moderate protest or a targeted sanction against detailed elements of the record of the European executive.
Rising energy prices already point in this direction, but this knowledge has yet to register.
How is it that the unemployed, and those who fear they might be the next wave of unemployed, do not register to vote?
Many Swedes have come to believe that it is their right to register as sick regardless of their health.
There is a real possibility that global growth will register its first contraction since World War II.
Beyond the issue of violence, the Russian authorities would take a huge historical risk by failing to register the public's growing alienation.
For example, some townships demand 14 kinds of fees to register a marriage.
Smaller border countries like Hungary and Greece simply do not have the capacity to register and house hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers.
Gateway countries would establish, in close cooperation with the United Nations Refugee Agency and the EU, processing centers to register asylum-seekers and assess their applications.
His crime was failing to register a small environmental group run by him and his younger brother in their remote home village of Gonjo, in eastern Tibet.
The new electoral register was more robust than in many Western countries, with a photo ID picture alongside each elector.
Some 60,000 refugees who sought to register have been put into detention facilities where conditions are inhumane.
Homosexuals have been able to register civil partnerships since 1995 and marry since 2009, and the country is one of the most radical in its understanding of women's rights - as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can attest.
And I, like many others, will not try to hide my satisfaction at seeing the smug scoundrels of the FN break down and resume speaking in their historic register, with their authentic voice, which is one of hatred and mob rage.
That appeal drew large and enthusiastic crowds, which, together with astute use of the Internet, gained him an unprecedented four million donors, and induced a huge number of African-Americans and young people to register to vote.
Such speculative purchases may barely register in inventories, because the purchases are small compared to the overall market, and because of the global storage system's many margins of accommodation.
In the case of North Korea, the world must of course register its displeasure.
A moratorium on such tests exists, and an impressive monitoring machinery has been created, able to register not only weapons tests, but also earthquakes and tsunamis.

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