What is "register"

Register \Reg"is*ter\ (r[e^]j"[i^]s*t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Registere (-t?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.

3. (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.

   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.

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.

Register \Reg"is*ter\ (r?j"?s*t?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.)

   1. A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.

   2. 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:

   1. (Mech.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.

   2. (Teleg.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.

   3. 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.)

   1. The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.

   2. The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.

   3. 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.)

   1. 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.

   2. 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.

late 14c. (transitive), "enter in a listing," from Old French registrer "note down, include" (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin registrare, from registrum (see register (n.)). Intransitive sense, of instruments, from 1797; of persons and feelings, "make an impression," from 1901. Meaning "to enter one's name in a list" for some purpose is from 1940. Related: Registered; registering. Registered nurse attested from 1879.

"assistant court officer in administrative or routine function," 1530s, now chiefly U.S., alteration of registrar (q.v) due to influence of register.

late 14c., from Old French registre (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin registrum, alteration of Late Latin regesta "list, matters recorded," noun use of Latin regesta, neuter plural of regestus, past participle of regerere "to record; retort," literally "to carry back, bring back" from re- "back" (see re-) + gerere "carry, bear" (see gest).\n

\nAlso borrowed in Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish. Some senses influenced by association with Latin regere "to rule." Meaning in printing, "exact alignment of presswork" is from 1680s. Musical sense is from 1811, "compass or range of a voice or instrument," hence "series of tones of the same quality" (produced by a voice or instrument). Sense "device by which data is automatically recorded" is 1830, from the verb; hence Cash register (1875).

n. 1 A formal recording of names, events, transactions etc. 2 A book of such entries. 3 An entry in such a book. 4 The act of registering. 5 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 evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title. 6 One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events. 7 A device that automatically records a quantity. 8 The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received. 9 (context telecommunications English) A list of received calls in a phone set. 10 (context computing English) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs or intermediate results of computations. 11 (context printing English) The exact alignment of lines, margins and colors. 12 (context printing English) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast. 13 (context music English) The range of a voice or instrument. 14 (context music English) An organ stop. 15 (context linguistics English) A style of a language used in a particular context 16 A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct. 17 (context mostly US Spanish) short form for cash register vb. 1 (context transitive English) To enter in a register. 2 (context transitive English) To enroll, especially to vote. 3 (context transitive English) To record, especially in writing.

1. n. an official written record of names or events or transactions [syn: registry]

2. (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

3. a book in which names and transactions are listed

4. (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

5. an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room

6. a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device

7. a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill [syn: cash register]

8. v. record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions

9. record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint" [syn: file]

10. enroll to vote; "register for an election"

11. be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the button?" [syn: record]

12. indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'" [syn: read, show, record]

13. have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties [syn: cross-file]

14. show in one's face; "Her surprise did not register"

15. manipulate the registers of an organ

16. send by registered mail; "I'd like to register this letter"

17. enter into someone's consciousness; "Did this event register in your parents' minds?"

Register or registration may refer to:

In phonology, a register or pitch register is a prosodic feature of syllables in certain languages, in which tone, vowel phonation, glottalization, or similar features depend upon each other. Burmese, Vietnamese and Wu Chinese have such systems.

In music, a register is the relative "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument, or group of instruments. A higher register indicates higher pitch.

• Example 1: Violins are in a higher register than cellos.

In woodwind and brass instruments, the word register usually distinguishes pitch ranges produced using different normal modes of the air column, with higher registers produced by overblowing. Often the timbres of different woodwind instrument registers tend to be markedly different.

• Example 2: The Western concert flute plays approximately three and a half octaves and generally has three complete registers and one partial register. The musical note C4 (corresponding to middle C on the piano) would be in that instrument's first register, whereas C5 (one octave higher) would be in its second register.

However, on the clarinet the notes from ( written) G4 or A4 to B4 sometimes are regarded as a separate "throat register", even though both they and the notes from F4 down are produced using the instrument's lowest normal mode; the timbre of the throat notes differs, and the throat register's fingerings also are distinctive, using special keys and not the standard tone holes used for other notes.

The register in which an instrument plays, or in which a part is written, affects the quality of sound or timbre. Register is also used structurally in musical form, with the climax of a piece usually being in the highest register of that piece. Often, serial and other pieces will use fixed register, allowing a pitch class to be expressed through only one pitch.

Register is a surname. It may refer to:

• Cheri Register, American author and teacher
• George Scott Register (1901–1972), American lawyer
• John Register (1936–1996), American painter
• Matthew Register, Canadian ice hockey player
• Paul J. Register (1899–1941), United States Navy officer and namesake of more than one United States Navy ship
• Sam Register, American television executive
• Steven Register, American baseball player

In linguistics, a register is a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. For example, when speaking in a formal setting contrary to an informal setting, an English speaker may be more likely to use features of prescribed grammar—such as pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal (e.g. "walking", not "walkin'"), choosing more formal words (e.g. father vs. dad, child vs. kid, etc.), and refraining from using words considered nonstandard, such as ain't.

As with other types of language variation, there tends to be a spectrum of registers rather than a discrete set of obviously distinct varieties – numerous registers could be identified, with no clear boundaries between them. Discourse categorisation is a complex problem, and even in the general definition of "register" given above (language variation defined by use not user), there are cases where other kinds of language variation, such as regional or age dialect, overlap. Consequent to this complexity, scholarly consensus has not been reached for the definitions of terms including "register", "field" or "tenor"; different scholars' definitions of these terms are often in direct contradiction of each other. Additional terms including diatype, genre, text types, style, acrolect, mesolect and basilect, among many others, may be used to cover the same or similar ground. Some prefer to restrict the domain of the term "register" to a specific vocabulary (Wardhaugh, 1986) (which one might commonly call jargon), while others argue against the use of the term altogether. These various approaches with their own "register", or set of terms and meanings, fall under disciplines including sociolinguistics, stylistics, pragmatics or systemic functional grammar.

In art and archaeology, in sculpture as well as in painting, a register is a vertical level in a work that consists of several levels, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines; modern comic books typically use similar conventions. It is thus comparable to a row, or a line in modern texts.

Common examples are from Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs as decoration scenes on objects, and large medieval frescos.

Luwian language hieroglyphs were also represented in stone art, in registers. Another example, in Mesopotamian art, would be the stones called Kudurru, or boundary stones, which often had registers of gods on the upper registers of the scenes.

A register is a grill with moving parts, capable of being opened and closed and the air flow directed, which is part of a building's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The placement and size of registers is critical to HVAC efficiency. Register dampers are also important, and can serve a safety function.