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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Register \Reg"is*ter\, v. t. (Securities) To enter the name of the owner of (a share of stock, a bond, or other security) in a register, or record book. A registered security is transferable only on the written assignment of the owner of record and on surrender of his bond, stock certificate, or the like From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Register \Reg"is*ter\ (r[e^]j"[i^]s*t[~e]r), n. [OE. registre, F. registre, LL registrum,regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr regerere regestum to carry back to register; pref. re- re- + gerere to carry. See {Jest}, and cf {Regest}.] 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 --Shak. 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 deeds. 4. 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 {Register}, v. i. 2. 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. Note: 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Register \Reg"is*ter\ (r[e^]j"[i^]s*t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Registered} (-t[~e]rd); p. pr & vb n. {Registering}.] [Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer LL registrare. See {Register}, n.] 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 From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Register \Reg"is*ter\, v. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: register n 1: an official written record of names or events or transactions [syn: {registry}] 2: the timbre characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice 3: a book in which names and transactions are listed 4: an arrangement (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room 5: a device (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device 6: a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill [syn: {cash register}] v 1: record in writing; enter into a register 2: register in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint" [syn: {file}] 3: register to vote; "register for an election" 4: be aware of [syn: {record}] 5: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'" [syn: {read}, {show}, {record}] 6: register as a candidate for several parties [syn: {cross-file}] 7: show in one's face; "Her surprise did not register" 8: send by registered mail "I'd like to register this letter" 9: enter into someone's consciousness From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Register, GA (town, FIPS 64372) Location: 32.36560 N, 81.88411 W Population (1990): 195 (76 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30452 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: register 1. One of a small number of high-speed memory locations in a computer's {CPU}. Registers differ from ordinary {random access memory} in several respects: There are only a small number of registers (the "register set"), typically 32 in a modern processor though some e.g. {SPARC}, have as many as 144. A register may be directly addressed with a few bits. In contrast, there are usually millions of words of main memory (RAM), requiring at least twenty bits to specify a memory location. Main memory locations are often specified indirectly, using an {indirect addressing} mode where the actual memory address is held in a register. Registers are fast typically, two registers can be read and a third written -- all in a single cycle. Memory is slower; a single access can require several cycles. The limited size and high speed of the register set makes it one of the critical resources in most computer architectures. {Register allocation}, typically one phase of the {back-end}, controls the use of registers by a compiled program. See also {accumulator}, {FUBAR}, {orthogonal}, {register dancing}, {register allocation}, {register spilling}. 2. An addressable location in a {memory-mapped} peripheral device. E.g. the transmit data register in a {UART}.
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