registern.1
/ˈrɛdʒᵻstə/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəstər/ I. Senses relating to documentation and records.† 2. (A name given to) the epistles of Gregory the Great. Obsolete.† 7. A certificate issued by the official who registers the details of a vessel, esp. as evidence of its nationality. Obsolete.
1. † d. U.S. slang. figurative. A person's face, regarded as a record of expression or feeling. Obsolete. rare.
a. A book or volume in which important items of information of a particular kind are regularly and accurately recorded; a collection of entries so created; a written record or account; (formerly also) †a catalogue (obsolete). Also in extended use.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun]
Domesday Book1178
registera1325
bookc1405
red book?1445
registery1483
register book1515
regesture1526
registrya1529
enroll1533
ledger1550
ledger-book1553
registry book1562
by-book1593
regest1670
registrary1696
hall-book1746
blotter1887
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 45 Foreasemuche ase þe tenement is aloined fram on to anoþer, ant nis no special writ ifunde in þe registre of þe chauncelerie in þat cas special,..þe writ sal ben denied.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. 278 (MED) I can þe nouȝte assoille Til þow make restitucioun..And sithen þat resoun rolle it in þe regystre of heuene That þow hast made vche man good.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1948 I nam no dyuynystre Of soules fynde I nat in this Registre [v.r. registere].
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 149 (MED) How a new counsellour shall be chosen, how mony owres off the day this counsell shall sytt..mowe be..putt in a boke, and that boke kept in this counsell as a registir or a ordinarye.
a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 33 Þat all good ordynaunce of the leetys be sought up and wryton in a regestre, that they may be of record foreuermore.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. viii. 182 Thei entre into the regestre of their stories.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 129 b It is not needefull to make a Register of all ye testimonies of writers.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 182 As you haue one eye vpon my follies, as you heare them vnfolded, turne another into the Register of your owne. View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 28 Seven Scribes..who had..enough to doe to..keep Registers of the Martyrs that were put to death.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 88 He kept a register of all the King's promises.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 91 The God supreme, to whose eternal eye The registers of fate expanded lie.
1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 151 I began, on Tuesday the 19th of August, an Experimental Register of the State of the Atmosphere.
1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 195 He was so good as to visit his patient, and examine his register.
1817 T. Chalmers Series Disc. Christian Revelation ii. 90 I may put into the registers of my belief, all that comes home to me through the senses of the outer man.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. x. 90 With a number of leathery old registers on shelves.
1906 B. O. Reynolds Irrigation Wks. ii. §14. 7 Rainfall registers are the foundation of knowledge of the water resources of a country.
1912 C. W. Holmes Elmira Prison Camp x. 133 A large bound register was also prepared, giving the names and all known information.
1989 M. Lane Literary Daughters ii. 54 As the family grew, she kept a register of each individual's intellectual growth.
2005 E. Blakeman Taffanel vi. 70 Taffanel noted four rehearsals before the second concert, and after that he stopped keeping a register.
b. Now also more fully Register of Writs (and occasionally Register of the Chancery): (the book containing) a compilation of the various forms of writs forming the basis of the Common Law, first published during the reign of Henry VIII, and cited by English lawyers of the 16–17th centuries.See D. M. Walker Oxf. Compan. Law (1980).
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > compilation of forms of writs
register1528
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. iv So it shalbe sayd in dyuers other wryttes..as it appereth by the regyster.
1531 W. Rastell Registrum omniu[m] breuium tam originaliu[m] q[uam] iudicialium 85v Thus endyth thys boke callyd the Register of the wryttys orygynall and iudiciall, prentyd at London by Wyllyam Rastell.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest ix. §5. f. 53 In the Register in the writ of Ad quod dampnum, there the woord is Assertare.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 73 b It appeareth by the Register that the king shal haue escuage of his tenants which hold of him.
1682 G. Carew Lex Talionis 24 If the Trespasser, be not able to satisfie, he shall be Sold for his Theft, or kept for a Ransom: Upon this ground the old Writs in the Register, and F. N. B were made.
1700 Law Ejectm. iii. 26 It's a Rule in the Register, That in the Writ of Ejectione Firme there may not be Bona & Catalla.
1796 A. Anstruther Rep. Cases Court of Exchequer I. 153 We have found no precedent for such a writ in the Register.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 477/1 ‘The Register of Writs’..is still an authority... But a variation from the register is not conclusive against the propriety of a form, if other sufficient authority can be adduced to prove its correctness.
1851 A. M. Burrill New Law Dict. & Gloss. II. 877/1 Register, or Register of Writs, a celebrated collection, in Latin, of writs original and judicial, generally called, by way of eminence, ‘The Register’... It is otherwise called Registrum Cancellariæ, (The Register of Chancery).
1869 W. F. Finlason Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law (new ed.) III. xxx. 437 The writs in the printed ‘Register’ must be taken to be such as they were used at the time of its publication.
1889 Harvard Law Rev. 3 101 An assumption which we may not be entitled to make—..that our MS. fairly represents what at some particular moment of time was the official Chancery Register... In very many cases the copy of the Register is bound up in a collection of statutes and treatises, the property of some lawyer.
1919 E. Jenks State & Nation iii. xiv. 208 The record of the common law is to be found in England, not in ‘custumals’, or in ‘land laws’, but in the Register of Writs and the Plea Rolls of the King's Courts.
2008 N. Ramsay in N. J. Morgan & R. M. Thomson Cambr. Hist. of Bk. in Brit. II. xi. 287 The register of Chancery writs was overhauled for the last time in about the 1380s.
c. Used in the titles of newspapers and periodicals.
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1703 (title) The Monthly Register, or, Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe, &c.
1785 (title) The Daily Universal Register.
1811 Weekly Reg. (Baltimore) 7 Sept. 1/2 As a proper close for this article we put on record the prospectus for The Weekly Register, as first issued from the press.
1875 Sedalia (Missouri) Daily Democrat 20 Mar. The New Haven Register relates that an actor at one of the theatres was called out three times in one evening.
1911 Times 22 Nov. 5 The poet..was employed on the Sheffield Register.
1944 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 4 Feb. 3 The Register reported the investigation involved several other high ranking officers.
2000 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. a23/1 ‘Politics is Muzak to a lot of people,’ said..the chief political reporter for the Des Moines Register.
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1894 ‘J. Flynt’ in Century Feb. 518/1 I hain't seen yer register for many a day.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > individual popes > [noun] > epistles of Gregory I
register1395
Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 4 (MED) The sentence of this article is opinli taught..bi seynt Gregori in his morals and in his pastoralis and registre.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 62 Seynt Gregorie in his Register, and Ambrose Upon þe XIII Psalme..sey þat he deied a holy man.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 181 (MED) Seynt Gregorye scheweþ in his registre þat his predecessoure Pelagius wold haue worschepid þe body of this blessid marter.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) v. l. 5437 Gregore..maid mony omelyis [etc.]..Dyaloge and Rigister, And oþir mony ma to þere.
1607 R. Parsons Treat Mitigation Catholike-subiectes in Eng. ix. 380 And so doth hold S. Augustine in many places of his workes, S. Chrysostome also in his homilies vpon S. Mathew and S. Marke, S. Gregory in his Register, S. Hierome and S. Bede.
1610 T. Bell Catholique Triumph ii. 38 The Emperour Constantine, gaue Melchiades the Pallace of Lateran, and those Grounds, of which Gregorie maketh often mention in his register.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Antigraphus The word is used by pope Gregory the great in his register.
3. Scottish. Any of various records or collections of records of a legal, parliamentary, or public nature. Also (in later use): spec. any of those relating to the transfer of heritable property as stipulated by the Registration Act of 1617. Register of Sasines: a record in which sasines (sasine n.) had to be registered within forty days of execution in order to be valid, and (later) in which conveyances and other deeds relating to land in Scotland had to be registered in order to be effective.The title of the official charged with the management of Scottish records has varied over the centuries: see Clerk of the Register n. at clerk n. Compounds 2.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > other types of registers
Domesday Book1178
register1426
white bookc1432
town booka1547
christening book1558
muster1565
minute-book1566
Domes-booke1610
Newgate Calendar1686
time book1786
press book1808
provision book1840
visitors' book1846
guestbook1849
poison book1870
poison register1894
war diary1917
sign-in1966
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > land register
register1426
terrier1477
1426 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1426/7 That all and syndry..present thar lettres..that thai be put in his register til perpetuale memor.
1469 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1469/17 Oure soverane lord sall mak the said reversionis tobe regesterit in his registir... The quhilk registir sall have the samyne force as the principale reversione wer schawing.
1540–1 in J. Fullarton Rec. Burgh Prestwick (1834) 55 [He] desyris..the copy of George Symsonis infeftment furth of the regester.
1566 (title) The Actis and Constitutiounis of the Realme of Scotland..viseit, correctit, and extractit furth of the Registers.
1577 in Acts Parl. Scot. (1844) I. Pref. 25 (note) The Registeris of the decreittis gevin be the Lordis of Counsale.
1617 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 546/1 Thair salbe ane publick Register In the whiche all Reuersiones,..grantis off redemptioun and siclyik all enstrumentis of seasing salbe registrat within thriescore dayes efter þe date of the same.
1642 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1906) 2nd Ser. VII. 183 The keyes of the roumes in the Castle and Exchecker House quhair the publict registers are keept.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1710) ii. iii. v. 443 The Law of Scotland is easy and regular, by reason of Public Registers,..for recording Conveyances of the Lands and Possessions of private Subjects.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 274/2 What is almost peculiar to this part of the empire, the register of all deeds conveying or changing territorial property.
1877 Act 40 & 41 Vict. c. 40 §5 The keeper..of the register of deeds and probative writs.
1949 Scotsman 5 Feb. 4 The Secretary of State for Scotland has appointed Mr. John McVie to be Keeper of the Registers of Scotland as from April 1, 1949 on which date the separation of the Registers and Records Departments of the Register House under the Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act, 1948, will take effect.
1975 Jrnl. Law Soc. Scotl. (BNC) 20 Search sheets for each Division of the Register of Sasines are in the custody of the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland.
1997 B. Short Land & Society in Edwardian Brit. ii. xii. 331 Scottish genealogists..have adequate alternative sources in the Registers of Sasines, Valuation Rolls and latterly the Land Register.
2007 Reg. of Scotl. Ann. Rep. & Accts. 2006–7 (Parl. of Scotl., SE/2007/163) 8 Progressively, the Land Register has been superseding the General Register of Sasines with properties being brought on to it as they are bought and sold.
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a. An entry in an official book of record: see sense 5. Now rare.In quot. 1655 in figurative context.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > entry in
registera1443
registration1599
registry1770
re-register1858
a1443 Chancery Petitions (P.R.O.) Ser. CP1 File 12 No. 195 (MED) John Twynyng..procured one John Baroun..to forge an vntrue register makyng mencioun that youre seid bisecher was preued afore the seid..bysshop.
1504–5 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 601 And the said abbot producit his register that the said landis ar gevin to thame without secular seruice.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezra ii. 62 These soughte the register of their byrth, and founde none.
1617 Acts Parl Scotl. (1816) IV. 546/1 Oure said souerane lord..ordanis the same registeris and registratiounes foirsaidis to be insert thairin.
1655 R. Davenport King Iohn & Matilda ii. i. sig. D1v Heare me; By these red marks, registers of your rashnesse, And by these tears, the fruits of my affliction.
1681 Tryal & Condemnation G. Busby 32 I do not find George Busbys name, the Prisoner, Registred; I have searched all the Books, and I find no Register of him.
1726 J. Arbuthnot et al. It cannot rain but it Pours 5 There being no Register of his Christning, his Age is only to be guessed at by his Stature and Countenance.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xii. 78 You have better proofs of your descent, my Lord, than the register of a marriage.
a1832 J. Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Eng. (1834) i. 16 Three persons were executed illegally at Taunton for rebellion, the nature and reason of their death being openly avowed in the register of their interment.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White III. i. ix I could only put the first explanation to the test by looking at the register of her marriage.
1880 J. Bouvier Inst. of Amer. Law (new ed.) I. i. iv. §265. 65 Proof by..an examined or certified copy of the register of the marriage.
1946 D. W. T. Shropshire Primitive Marriage & European Law x. 163 The priest celebrates the marriage in church and sends a copy of the register to the Government.
1997 M. Jones in K. Laybourn Social Conditions, Status & Community 89 The only evidence Mary Howard had was her copy of the register of ‘her father and mother's marriage which took place a year before she was born’.
b. Chiefly of rainfall, temperature, etc.: an amount or measurement recorded or registered. Now rare.
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1867 Ann. Reg. 1866 ii. 308/1 During the first week the morning register ranged from 56° to 60°; and the night from 40° to 56°, and rainfall occurred every day.
1889 H. Drummond Trop. Afr. (ed. 2) x. 225 At Bandawé, on Lake Nyassa, a register of eighty-six inches is counted a somewhat dryish season.
1904 T. Holdich India xii. 351 At this point the rainfall is extraordinary, 50 or 60 feet being a not unusual register at Cherra Punji on the edge of the plateau.
1906 A. Machen House of Souls 175 People who observed the thermometer spoke of an abnormal register, of a temperature that was almost tropical.
5. Any of various records or books of record listing and giving details of names, events, etc., esp. any of various official or authoritative records or books of record having some public or commercial importance.
a. A book used for recording the baptisms, marriages, or burials in a parish church. Cf. parish register n. (b) at parish n. Compounds 2. Also (in later use): such a record of births, marriages, and deaths, kept by a public official appointed for this purpose.The recording of births, marriages, and deaths is a legal act, required by law.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > register of births, marriages and deaths
register1534
1534 in J. M. Webster & A. A. M. Duncan Regality of Dunfermline Court Bk. (1953) 113 Master Francis Bothwell..producit ane attentik copy of the register of the abba of Dunfermlyng.
1538 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) II. 154 That yow and euery parson vicare or curate within this diocese shall for euery churche kepe one boke or registre wherein ye shall write the day and yere of every weddyng christenyng and buryeng.
1603 Constit. & Canons Eccl. lxx Ministers to Keepe a Register of Christenings, Weddings, and Burials.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. viii. 205 The strict and vigilant Observance of the..Registers of the Bills of Births and Deaths.
1753 Act 26 Geo. II c. 33 §14 Immediately after the Celebration of every Marriage, an entry thereof shall be made in such Register.
1782 E. Burke On Negro Code in Wks. IX. 305 Every Minister shall keep a register of births, burials and marriages.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1709 I. 8 His baptism is recorded, in the register of St. Mary's parish.
1836 Act 6 & 7 William IV c. 86 §49 (margin) Registers of Baptisms and Burials may be kept as heretofore.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) v. 42 The register signed, and the fees paid [etc.].
1874 Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 88 §49 The registrar..who keeps the register in which the birth or death..is..registered.
1901 Academy 7 Dec. 571/2 They ride along until the following day, when, passing a village church, they get married, the villain signing the register under a false name.
1956 D. E. Gardner & F. A. Smith Geneal. Res. Eng. & Wales I. iv. 46 Many births and deaths were not recorded in the parish registers of England and Wales.
2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 3 Sept. 37 [They] radiated happiness as they signed the register in the library of the peer's fabulous former stately home.
b. A record of seamen in the merchant navy. Now historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > crew > list of
register1695
muster1748
muster roll1809
1695–6 Act 7 & 8 Will. III c. 21 §1 In the said Register or Registers, there shall be truly and faithfully Entred..the Names, Sirnames [etc.].
1754 Ess. Manning Fleet 9 In, or about the Year 1696, a Register for Seamen was opened..by what Accidents it fail'd, I cannot say.
1796 J. Vancouver Enq. Causes & Production Poverty 131 The register of seamen..is now kept at most ports for the muster-roll.
1835 Act 5 & 6 William IV c. 19 §19 And whereas it is expedient that a Register should be formed and maintained of all the ‘Mariners and Seafaring Men of the United Kingdom’.
1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 306 The register being compiled from the agreements with seamen &c.
1915 E. R. Johnson et al. Hist. Domest. & Foreign Commerce U.S. II. xxxix. 306 A register of all seamen presenting themselves is kept by the commissioners.
1998 L. Lloyd in J. Rowlands & S. Rowlands Welsh Family Hist. (ed. 2) 136 A new register was commenced in 1853 which listed seamen alphabetically (Register of Seamen..), though this was discontinued after 1857.
c. A list or record of pupils attending a school. Also (now chiefly): a record of daily attendance at a school. Frequently in to call (also take) the register.
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society > education > educational administration > school administration > [noun] > record of attendance
register1847
1766 Acct. Designs Associates Late Dr Bray (new ed.) 36 He promiseth to send in his next Letter a Copy of the School Register, with the Ages of the Children, and their Improvements.
1805 Plan for Establishm. & Regul. of Sunday Schools 33 A Numerical Register may be kept at each School, with an additional column for the progressive number continued through all the schools, each successive Quarter.
1816 Man. Syst. Teaching Elem. Schools (Brit. & Foreign School Soc. London) i. 11 The registers are five in number. 1st, School register. 2d, Register with the aggregate of daily attendance [etc.].
1847 Rep. Public Instr. Bengal Presidency 132 I am obliged..to take the register of attendance twice a day at the beginning and end of the school hours.
1888 C. M. Yonge Our New Mistress ii. 14 She called over the names... The registers had got into a muddle, and there was no knowing who had left school and who was only absent.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 22 One day my bread-stealer arrived at half past two, when the register was closed.
1955 E. Blishen Roaring Boys iv. 183 I called the register... The ginger-haired boy answered to the name of Grange.
1978 R. Mills Comprehensive Educ. 44 His lessons..began with the calling of the register.
2003 G. Squires & S. McKeown Supporting Children with Dyslexia iii. 45 The pupils were spending ten minutes quietly reading while the teacher took the register and got materials ready.
d. gen. An official list or directory of persons (or occasionally things) belonging to a particular category, having a particular status, or holding a particular qualification.Recorded earliest in medical register n. at medical adj. and n. Compounds. social register: see the first element.
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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > list of names or people > others
register1780
police blotter1861
critical list1898
1780 (title) The medical register for the year 1779.
1862 Times 28 Jan. 11/2 Oliver then stole the certificates of the shares, and by that means caused the plaintiff's name to be removed from the register of shareholders.
1869 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 10 295/1 The names of persons registered as Apprentices or Students of the Society shall, upon their election as Associates, bе removed from the Register of Apprentices or Students, and placed upon the Register of Associates.
1901 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 1 349 In the event of legislation being obtained, there would be a register published annually, stating a nurse's qualifications.
1969 Washington Post 25 Mar. c4/5 Ten Washington buildings..were placed yesterday on the National Register of Historic places.
1997 Time Out 10 Sept. 9/2 They are run by parkies who only qualify for the job if they are on the national register of paedophiles and have a tendency towards violence.
2001 Pet Reptile July 16/2 There are..details of upcoming shows and events, a national register of vets and links to other sites of interest.
e. An official list of all who are entitled to vote in national or local elections; = electoral roll n. at electoral adj. and n. Additions.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote > list of
voting list1783
register1789
electoral register1817
electoral roll1837
checklist1888
precinct sheet1894
1789 A. Luders Rep. Proc. Comm. House of Commons upon Controverted Elections II. xii. 487 The only method..to effectuate this intention of the act, is to require the assessment to be made in that form, which will best serve for an explicit register of voters.
1821 Niles' Weekly Reg. 14 Apr. 100/1 We have nothing that partakes of even the character of a register of voters—not any thing to serve as a check upon the unprincipled.
1832 Act 2 Will. IV c. 45 §37 Whereas it is expedient to form a Register of all Persons entitled to vote [etc.].
1843 Ld. Brougham Polit. Philos. iii. ix. 69 The necessity for a register, assumes that the franchise is confined to particular classes.
1870 Act 33 & 34 Victoria c. 92 (margin) Preparation of municipal registers in burghs which do not return members to Parliament.
1892 Graphic 9 Apr. 455/2 If the General Election fell at any date after the 31st of July, when the new Register is struck.
1976 Denbighshire Free Press 8 Dec. 4/6 You have just over a week to make sure your name is on the new register of electors which comes into force in February.
1999 E. Gyimah-Boadi in A. Schedler et al. Self-restraining State ii. vii. 110 Copies of the final register of voters were given to the political parties in both paper and computer-readable (CD- ROM) form.
f. A record of guests staying in a hotel, inn, boarding house, etc.Recorded earliest in hotel register n. at hotel n. Compounds 1.
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1833 C. G. F. Gore Sketch Bk. Fashion III. xiii. 317 The first incident that produced any sensation in his mind, in the course of his solitary journey, was the sight of an hotel register presented to him.
1841 Graham's Mag. Nov. 205/2 A week had elapsed before he chose to give any other idea of his rank and station than might be derived from the register of the hotel.
1931 Fortune Aug. 70/1 A common local ruse is to stroll into a hotel lobby, look over the register, and assume any listed name you fancy.
1960 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 10 Jan. c3/3 Your name may well be the only non-Spanish one in the register of the Hotel Cortes.
2001 J. Dunning Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime xiii. 47 He had signed in after midnight, scrawling his name illegibly in the register.
g. A record of shipping, containing particulars of construction, materials, size, ownership, etc. Cf. Lloyd's Register (of Shipping) at Lloyd's n.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > official record
register1876
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > certificate issued by registering official
ship's registry1867
register1876
1876 W. S. Lindsay Hist. Merchant Shipping & Anc. Commerce III. xvi. 465 There were a great many more vessels on the Register than there actually existed, from the fact that no means were then taken to ascertain the losses.
1914 A. W. Kirkaldy Brit. Shipping ii. v. 221 In reality it would appear..that the new register was established almost entirely by ship-owners.
1977 A. R. Dicks in V. H. Li Law & Politics in China's Foreign Trade ii. 254 Such services as the maintenance of a register of shipping..appear to be directly subject to the central ministry.
2003 Z. Brodecki Polish Business Law xii. 395 The Polish ships register consists of three separate registers, the first of which is the permanent register for vessels having, or deemed to have, Polish ownership.
6. Registration; the action of registering. In later use only in port of register.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > registration
descrivingc1325
descriptiona1425
descrying1440
brevementc1475
enrolment1552
register1563
registration?1566
booking1583
matriculating1585
registry1589
inrotulation1590
counterrolment1598
enregistering1604
taxation1686
re-registration1836
preregistration1928
society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [noun] > types of
creek1478
mole1545
haveneta1552
havenleta1552
portlet1577
seaport1596
close-harbour1615
basin1725
close port1728
entry port1838
port of call1838
way port1846
tidal basin1858
tidal harbour1859
port of register1860
1563 G. Hay Confut. Abbote of Crosraguels Masse f. 60 These thinges as moste notable, we iudge moste worthy of Register.
1653 Acts & Ordin. Parl. (Scobell) c. 6. 227 And the person so elected..shall continue three years in the said place of Register.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. Ep. to Rdr., sig. c2v The Free Lands of England being put under a Voluntary Register by Act of Parliament.
1753 J. Stirling tr. Horace Wks. II. 334/2 Let us bathe with full and gorg'd stomachs, forgetting what is decent, what is not; worthy the register of the Caerites.
1793 T. Pinckney Let. 10 Apr. in T. Jefferson Papers (1992) XXV. 526 I send herewith the certificate of register of the Ship Philadelphia Packet lately lost in the European Seas.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 245 Her port of register is Liverpool.
1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. iv. 129 Elaborate pencil and pen outlines, of which perhaps half-a-dozen are worth register and preservation.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 271/2 As a whole Gothenburg ranks as second to Stockholm;..but it is actually the principal centre of export trade and port of register.
1957 W. Jameson Ark Royal ii. 45 The name Sogne appeared on the bows and stern with Oslo as the port of register.
2003 G. de L. Marshall Ships' Figure Heads Austral. 82 Unlike other ports of register, the majority of female figure heads [from Hobart] were not named after individual people.
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1725 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1909) XLV. 96 Ye said Colley kept ye sd Skooner in custody with ye Register.
1753 Georgia Col. Rec. VI. 396 Mr. Alexander Wylly of Savannah Merchant applyed to the Board for a New Register for a Schooner.
1818 Niles' Reg. 15 104/1 Taylor swears, that he is..the sole owner of the schr. Romp, for which vessel he was then taking out a register.
1825 Act 6 George IV c. 110 §48 The Force and Effect of any Register granted to any Ship or Vessel.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. xii. 239 The brigantine, which had taken out her British register and licence under the name of the Rebiera, went out of harbour.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. i. 1 The Britannia steam-packet, twelve hundred tons burden per register.
II. Other senses.
8. In the production and compilation of books. † b. An index; a table of contents. Obsolete.rare after 16th cent.
a. A ribbon attached to the top of the spine of a book to serve as a bookmark. In later use also register ribbon.rare before 19th cent.
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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > bookmark
senyec1440
sign?c1475
register1530
bookmark1833
bookmarker1835
marker1852
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 261/2 Regyster of a boke, signet.
1882 Publishers' Weekly 16 Sept. 369 (advt.) Illuminated letterings on side, gilt clasp, round corners, silk register.
1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 488/2 Register, the ribbon placed in a volume for a marker.
1908 in P. Sidney Hist. Gunpowder Plot (advt.) The Pilgrim's Progress..Demy 8vo, full gilt, with leather medallion centre, bevelled boards, gilt top, headbands, and silk register, 5s.
1959 L. M. Harrod Librarian's Gloss. (ed. 2) 231 Register, the ribbon attached to a volume to serve as a book-marker.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. of Bk. at Signet A silk ribbon secured at the head of a book for use as a page-marker. These were frequently used by 16th-century French binders... Also known as register.
2004 A. Campbell Digital Designer's Jargon Buster 248/2 Register ribbon, a ribbon fastened at the back of a book and used as a book marker.
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society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > matter preceding text > table of contents
table of contents (content)1481
register1565
indexa1593
contence1633
1565 J. Hall tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. Index sig. h.vv A very ample and necessarye Index or register, drawne after the Alphabet, whiche leadeth verye redilye by the numbers of eche Page, to all suche names and necessarye notes.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 8 Syllabus, index libri,..the index, table, or register of a booke.
1890 Durham Diocesan Gaz. 4 59 Register. 1. Letter from the Bishop..page 33 [etc.].
c. A list of printers' signatures at the end of an early printed book, provided as a guide for the binder; the series of signatures in a printed book.In quot. 1883 in extended use, of glass plates.
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society > communication > printing > printers' symbols and directions > [noun] > mark to show sequence of page or sheet > series of
register1785
quiring1922
1785 W. Herbert Ames' Typogr. Antiq. (rev. ed.) I. 200 The register of signatures stands thus: The first part, A, 4; B, 8; b, 6.
1815 T. F. Dibdin Bibliotheca Spenceriana IV. Suppl. 532 A table follows, ending on the recto of A 1O. The register is on the reverse. The leaves then commence to be numbered.
1823 T. F. Dibdin Descr. Catal. Bks. Earl Spencer 39 The register is on the reverse of the last leaf. This copy has been much written upon; but is otherwise sound.
1859 Two Bks. Homilies (Church of Eng.) p. lxxv The register is continuous, A—Mm in sixes, Nn of eight leaves: but the pagination is still separate.
1883 J. T. Taylor Hardwich's Man. Photogr. Chem. (ed. 9) 343 On a corner of the glass is scratched with a diamond 1, 2, &c., as the case might be. The register will serve for future printings from the same Negative.
1885 Brit. Mus. Catal. Caxton Game and Playe of the chesse..(2nd ed.) Without titlepage or pagination; the register commences on the eighth leaf bj, and extends to I vi.
1959 L. M. Harrod Librarian's Gloss. (ed. 2) 231 Register, a list of signatures attached to the end of early printed books or printed above the colophon or on a separate leaf, for the guidance of the folder or binder. A ‘registrum’.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 412/2 Register, a list of signatures appearing at the end of early printed books as a guide to the binder. They were mostly used in Italy c. 1470–1600,..though examples do occur in English books.
2005 S. Anglo Machiavelli: 1st Cent. i. vi. 168 A second work, Catharino's Assertiones,..has a separate pagination and register of signatures.
9.
a. In an organ: a strip of wood in the wind chest which, passing under a row of pipes from right to left, admits or blocks the flow of air to these pipes, thus allowing the organist to select and vary the range of tones in a piece of music; = slider n.1 4b. Hence (now usually): a set of pipes controlled by a slider or analogous mechanism; an individually selected tone colour with its associated pitch-range or combination of ranges, whether produced by pipes or by an analogous system as on a harmonium or electronic organ; a stop (stop n.2 14a); a stop-knob (see stop-knob n. at stop n.2 Compounds). Also: (on a harpsichord or other stringed keyboard instrument) a device for bringing into play a separate set of strings.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > register
register1585
slider1781
registrar1840
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop
stopc1500
register1585
organ stop1644
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 354/2 Pleuritides regulæ,..the side rules which are put in and pulled out, either to stop or to open the holes: the registers [Ger. das register (singular); Du. de registers/gheluyden].
1649 C. Hoole Easie Entrance Lat. Tongue ii. 322/1 The board in the upper part of the organs, Pinax..the registers, or side rules, Pleurítides régulae.
1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 30 The three Registers marked GHI, are different the one from the other. And to the intent that the noise of the motion may not be heard when the Organs play, it is good that there be a Wall of a foot thick between the Registers and the said motion.
1740 J. Grassineau tr. S. De Brossard Musical Dict. 195 Register, which we generally call a stop, is a part of an organ.
1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music IV. i. x. 148 By means of the Registers that command the several orders of pipes, the wind is either admitted into or excluded from them severally.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 487/2 To fit these channels, there are the same number of wooden sliders or registers running the whole length.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xvi. 104/2 The whole of the accessory movements are labelled similar to the registers.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xvi. 104/2 The total number of pipes is 2475, and of registers 45.
1959 R. Russell Harpsichord & Clavichord 135 It is fairly well known how the slides move, in which stand the jacks of a Harpsichord. They are commonly known as Registers or Stops.
1997 J. S. Whiteley Joseph Jongen & his Organ Music iii. xii. 144/1 Of all the two stave pieces only the Prière du matin, Angélus..and the Offertoire sur l'Alma Redemptoris Mater..include harmonium register instructions.
b. The range of a voice or instrument; spec. the particular range of tones which can be produced in the same way and with the same quality.Frequently with distinctive premodifiers as upper, middle, and lower register; head, throat, and chest register, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > range or compass
compass1597
gamut1639
diapason1687
ambitus?1775
range1796
register1806
scale1818
1806 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (ed. 2) Register, a term applied to the compass, or graduated notes, of a voice.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 418/2 The compass of soprano and some other voices are divided into registers, of which there are two, viz. the natural and the falsetto.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. x. 176 The sounds too were very pleasant to hear.., musical laughs in all the registers.
1893 C. Seiler Handbk. Diagn. & Treatm. Dis. Throat, Nose, & Naso-pharynx 107 The singer feels as though the voice came..from the throat in the falsetto, which is therefore also frequently called the throat register; or from the top of the head in the head register.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 175/1 The voice has been divided by writers into three registers—the lower or chest, the middle and the small or head register.
1920 J. A. Mosher Effective Speaking Voice x. 115 Our ordinary speaking utilizes not merely the middle register, but frequently reaches up into the high and down into the low register.
1939 Fortune Oct. 88/1 The announcer taps two Indian elephant bells with rapid dissonants in the upper register.
1966 Listener 10 Feb. 218/1 These works show Varese's characteristic use of unusual sources sonores and his exploitation of the extreme registers of wind instruments as well as an interest in non-tempered scales.
1993 Classic CD June 62/2 A high baritone with impressive energy and vibrancy in all registers.
2000 Musical Performance 2 iv. 73 Extremely strained or strangled speech,..or speech in an abnormal register (such as falsetto in a male).
c. Linguistics. In language: a variety or level of usage, esp. as determined by social context and characterized by the range of vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, etc., used by a speaker or writer in particular circumstances.
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the mind > language > a language > register > [noun]
code1952
register1956
1956 T. B. W. Reid in Archivum Linguisticum 8 32 He will on different occasions speak (or write) differently according to what may roughly be described as different social situations: he will use a number of distinct ‘registers’.
1962 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 7 69 Interference may..vary according to the social role of the speaker in any given case. This is what the Edinburgh School has called register.
1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising vii. 68 Varieties of English distinguished by use in relation to social context are called registers.
1971 P. Young in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 173 A novel, then, can be seen as an amalgam of registers within a wider register of literary endeavour.
1972 Notes & Queries Dec. 446/2 Chaucer must therefore have used what was, for the London of his time, a more formal, possibly more archaic, register.
1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching Eng. x. 119 They are aware..of the idea of ‘varieties’ of English, and they probably know the term ‘register’—a variety related to a particular use of the language, a particular subject or occupation.
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Mar. 49/2 An unexpected bonus is a bilingual section on letter-writing in both formal and informal registers.
2004 M. González Pragmatic Markers in Oral Narr. vi. 224 This marker is very often used by Catalan speakers in colloquial register when the speech formality is low.
d. Phonetics. A phonetic distinction in voice quality or phonation type, employed contrastively in some languages either independently of tonal contrasts (as in Mon-Khmer and other languages of mainland South-East Asia) or subdividing a complex set of tonal contrasts.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > register
register1957
1957 R. Jakobson & M. Halle in L. Kaiser Man. Phonetics 228 In the intersyllabic variety of tone features, the ‘level’ feature, different syllable crests within a sequence are contrasted by their register: higher and lower. The level feature may be split in two: either a neutral register is contrasted with an elevated register, on the one hand, and with a lowered one, on the other.
1964 J. C. Catford in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 34 ‘Register’ differences..are associated with tone-differences in several S.E. Asian languages.
1967 D. Abercrombie Elem. Gen. Phonetics 101 In Cambodian, for example, every syllable is spoken with one of two registers, which are mainly distinguished from each other by the position of the larynx in the throat. The same is true of Gujerati spoken in Surat, the difference here being between ‘tight’ and ‘breathy’ phonation.
2002 J. Watkins Phonetics of Wa vi. 132 In the Wa vowel system, as in other Mon-Khmer languages, the potential number of vocalic contrasts is doubled, because each vowel can occur in either of two registers, ‘clear’ and ‘breathy’.
10. A device for regulating the passage of air, heat, or smoke, esp. in a domestic fire grate or central heating system, consisting typically of a metal plate or plates by which an opening may be wholly or partially closed. See also register plate n. 2.In quot. 1797 the regulator of a steam engine.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture > means of preventing passage of gas or liquid
register1612
water seal1847
water lock1863
seala1884
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve
cockc1483
window1576
stopcock1584
register1612
shut1651
valve1659
flap1824
shut-off1869
stop-tap1895
stop-gate1902
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > devices to provide or adjust draught
fan1530
register plate1715
register1744
damper1788
Shadrach1827
draught1870
phukni1959
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > duct or pipe conveying heat > perforated plate admitting hot air
register1950
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. D4 Looke well to the Register, And let your heate, still, lessen by degrees. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 159 Which Hole is to be left open, or govern'd with its Register, to attemper the Air..entring by the Furnace-Pipes.
1744 B. Franklin Acct. Pennsylvanian Fire-places 22 Turn open the Register..otherwise if there be Smoke in the Fire-Place, it will come out into the Room.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 264 Make a small passage through the dome, by opening some of its registers, that the flame may just begin to draw.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 54/2 There are also registers in the steam engine.
1801 Trans. Soc. Arts 19 326 A double register;—first to close the back flue.
1860 R. W. Emerson Culture in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 135 People..who coddle themselves, who toast their feet on the register.
1906 A. Blackwood Empty House 241 ‘We must observe the utmost secrecy. Perhaps you would be kind enough to close the registers,’ he went on... ‘Open registers have betrayed conversations before now.’
1950 R. Moore Candlemas Bay ii. 86 Two rooms were warmed by hot-air registers through the kitchen ceiling.
1970 Daily Tel. 25 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 14 (advt.) Built-in ducts waft warm air to each room through small, skirting-level registers.
1986 W. H. Johnson in A. Limon et al. Home Owner Man. (ed. 2) iv. iv. 585 (caption) What enters the return air duct will emerge eventually at registers, and the system is not intended to distribute cooking smells throughout the dwelling.
2005 D. Munson & D. Munson Facing Justice xlii. 330 The metal register she had so carefully replaced weeks ago lay at his feet, along with a wad of duct tape.
11.
a. A mechanical indicating device or apparatus; esp. one which automatically records data or measurements.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > devices for
register1681
registrer1831
audio-visuals1946
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 228 He contrived a Thermometer to be its own Register.]
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iv. i. 358 A Barometre,..a Weather-Cock,..and a Hygroscope. Each of which have their Regester, and the Weather-Cock hath Two; one for the Points, the other for the Strength of the Wind.
1830 J. F. Daniell in Philos. Trans. 120 262 The pyrometer..consists of two distinct parts, which I shall designate as the Register and the Scale.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1912/1 Watt first applied a register to the steam-engine to count the strokes.
1913 J. D. Hoffman & B. F. Raber Handbk. Heating & Ventilating Engineers (ed. 2) iv. 56 Let Q′ = total volume of air per hour, including extra air for ventilation, measured at the register.
1954 Jrnl. Sci. Instruments 31 429/1 Motor type 913 was used with a mechanical register geared so that 1.8 turns moved the scale through one division.
2003 G. Fowles & W. H. Boyes in W. Boyes Instrumentation Ref. Bk. (ed. 3) i. 15/1 The rotary movement of the piston is transmitted..from the drive shaft to a mechanical register or electronic readout device.
b. In an adding machine or a calculator (mechanical or electronic): a device or system for displaying or storing the results of arithmetical operations or other numerical data.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > calculator > data storage
register1860
accumulator1914
1860 U.S. Patent 27,418 1/1 The said invention [sc. an adding machine] relates to a peculiar construction of rings in which are combined the three features of finger wheel, ratchet and register.
1901 Nature 11 July 266 At the end next the operator is a row of nine number wheels, or one more than the number of columns, on one axle, seen through windows, so that only one figure on each can be read. This is called the register.
1914 Handbk. Napier Tercentenary Exhib. (Royal Soc. Edinb.) 86 Having carried out a calculation, it is necessary, before starting a new calculation, to set the registers to ‘0’.
1946 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 2 151 The Brunsviga Dupla..had two product registers..and had red and white figures as in the multiplier register.
1973 Pop. Mech. Feb. 192/2 Separate ‘M+’ and ‘M−’ keys that let you add to or subtract from the memory total, and buttons that clear the memory without affecting the main register.
2003 N. Dale et al. Programming & Probl. Solving with Visual Basic .NET vi. 235 Pick up your pocket calculator... What are the objects that you see? A register on the top that shows what you are entering and displays the answer.
c. Computing. A temporary memory location able to store only a single string of bits (typically equal in size to the maximum word length allowed by a computer's architecture), but having a high access speed; (in later use) esp. one of a set of such locations in a central processing unit.control, index, shift register, etc.: see the first element.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > primary storage or main memory > register
register1946
program register1948
shift register1950
index register1955
control register1956
1946 J. P. Eckert in Moore School Lect. (1985) 120 There are 999 registers (the name given to the little memory blocks in the internal memory).
1959 Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery 2 3/2 The arithmetic unit has four fast access cells. In these cells, the words are stored in dynamic form, in registers.
1977 Sci. Amer. Sept. 86/3 In microprocessors registers are employed for the temporary storage of data.
1987 Desktop Publishing Today Nov. 17/1 Registers are the very small memories of a processor—the fastest memories in the machine.
2006 N. Barrett Binary Revol. iii. 85 The word is copied by the memory unit from the specified location to a register within the CPU.
12. Senses relating to alignment, in various contexts.† a. Typography. That part of a type mould which enables adjustment to, and setting of, the alignment of the two halves of the mould. Obsolete.
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society > communication > printing > type founding > type-founding equipment > [noun] > matrix > part of
register1683
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 138 The Register..is made of an Iron Plate about a Brevier thick.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Register, among Letter-Founders, is one of the inner Parts of the Mould wherein the Printing-Types are cast... Its use is to direct the joining them justly together again, after opening them to take out the new-cast Letter.
1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. at Foundery He draws the under half of the mould towards the ball of his thumb, and thrusts, by the ball of his thumb, the upper part towards his fingers, that both the registers of the mould may press against both sides of the matrice.
1853 Mechanics' Mag. 496/1 The fourth side, or top [of the mould], also carries a register for the matrix, so that by placing a different size of matrix between the two registers, the mould will be adjusted for the change of thickness.
1873 Appleton's Dict. Machines (new ed.) I. 266 The mould..is made in two L-formed parts;..the width..is adjusted by a piece called the register, fixed at the bottom of the mould.
b. Printing. Precise positioning of type or printing; esp. exact correspondence of the printed matter on the two sides of a sheet. Frequently in in register, out of register.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > [noun] > precise positioning
register1683
registering1839
registration1901
preregistration1928
society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > precise or faulty positioning
register1683
misregister1931
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 284 Making Register, is to Quoin up a Form [etc.].
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 289 Then he observes how the Register of the Head and Foot agrees.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 348 Out of register, bad register.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) In the Art of Printing, Register is a Rule for the equal Distribution of the Lines and Pages.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 500 Out of register, when Pages are not worked even on each other.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 159 The right hand margin is not in register, the lines being of unequal length.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 305 In order to..be printed on both sides, without destroying the register (or coincidence of the pages on the opposite sides of the sheet).
1890 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding (ed. 2) i. i. 3 The binder is perfectly justified in rejecting any sheets..not in register.
1943 B. Rogers Paragraphs on Printing 57 Uneven leading or extra leading between paragraphs..throws lines out of register, interrupts the continuity of the text, and offends the eye.
1984 J. Gerritsen in G. A. M. Janssens & F. G. A. M. Aarts Stud. 17th-cent. Eng. Lit., Hist., & Bibliogr. 109 The two sides are completely out of register in both directions, as a result of which the final headline is almost wholly trimmed away.
2000 Adv. Learner's Dict. Journalism 121 Register, the accurate positioning of printing on a page, so that each page image will exactly back up the page image on the other side of a sheet.
c. Exact correspondence of superimposed images, as in colour photography, colour printing, and other forms of colour reproduction.
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1859 Photogr. Jrnl. 23 May 301/2 In employing the engraved blocks for colouring photographic pictures taken from the original negative, they are worked in a press;..the photographic pictures to be printed are prepared for the purpose of obtaining register by puncturing each edge with a series of holes.
1896 U.S. Patent 561,686 1/1 If..the negative and paper are not in register, a series of colors are exposed containing the other colors of the spectrum.
1915 J. B. Rathbun Motion Picture Making ii. 36 In printing the positive film from the negative, the teeth of the sprockets in the printing machine pass through both films, holding them in perfect register.
1947 Electronics Jan. 75/2 Color fringing..is also not present in the simultaneous system [of colour television], but a similar effect due to lack of register among the three simultaneous images may be present.
1966 H. Williamson Methods Bk. Design (ed. 2) xxii. 366 Colour printing usually costs more per colour than does black printing because of the laborious work of getting and maintaining register.
1978 Amateur Photographer 11 Jan. 69/2 A bas relief is made by printing through a negative and a positive, sandwiched together slightly out of register.
2004 P. Andrews Adv. Photoshop Elements for Digital Photographers v. 152 Holding down the Shift key will make sure that the new layers are kept in register with the existing background.
d. Photography. In early cameras having no separate viewfinder: precise correspondence in the positioning of the focusing screen and the plate which takes its place. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > technical factors > [noun] > type of focusing
depth of field1855
circle of least confusion1867
flatness of field1867
infinity1867
register1890
fixed focus1892
back focus1897
circle of confusion1906
isocentre1931
split-field1941
split-image1950
1890 W. E. Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 607 The register of a camera is the correspondence in position between the focussing screen and the surface of the sensitive plate or film afterwards introduced.
1897 Photogr. Times Aug. 362/2 At times the camera may leak or get out of register, that is, the plate does not exactly take the place of the ground glass.
1919 Pract. Photogr. No. 3. 52 Incorrect register of the ground glass is not unknown, even in costly reflecting instruments.
e. Molecular Biology. Precise alignment between the helical chains of a protein or nucleic acid molecule, or between their subunits.
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the world > life > biology > substance > proteins > [noun] > processes, parts, or structures
conformation1929
glycosylation1945
superstructure1952
register1956
resilin1960
1956 Jrnl. Biophysical & Biochem. Cytol. 2 Suppl. 265 Electron micrographs of bone have revealed sheets of collagen fibrils with periods in register over large areas.
1964 R. E. Dickerson in H. Neurath Proteins II. 691 If the two helices have 3.6 units per turn.., then though they may intermesh well at the beginning of a turn..they will be out of register by the end of a turn.
1987 H. Harris Balance of Improbabilities viii. 182 As far as was known at the time, two nucleic acid molecules..could recognize each other only if the subunits that made up the two linear chains were in register (were homologous).
2005 Current Opinion Cell Biol. 17 511/2 These two events, TM [= transmembrane] shortening and packing, are linked because TM packing requires a specific helical register and crossing angle.
13. Rope-making. A machine for making rope or yarn by twisting together the component strands which are drawn through concentric holes on a rotating disc. See also register plate n. 3. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > rope-making equipment > [noun] > other rope-making equipment
warping-tree1404
throw-crook1557
warping-stock1588
spun-yarn winch1627
winch1640
woolder1750
register1793
top minor1793
laying-top1794
warping-block1794
whirl1794
reel1797
warping-post1797
whirl-hook1797
strand-hook1825
spreader1830
register plate1832
wimble1863
snugger1875
strop1875
1793 J. Huddart Brit. Patent 1952 5 The register is calculated to form the strand into shells of yarns, and there~fore they must be made of different sizes.
1842 Penny Mag. Nov. 469/1 The system for attaining any required intensity of twist is called the ‘register’, in relation to the means for determining the exact degree of twist in the strand.
1889 D. K. Clark Man. Rules, Tables, & Data for Mech. Engin. (ed. 4) 673 Made by the warm register, the rope is stronger and more durable than by the cold register, as it is more thoroughly penetrated by the tar.
1907 H. R. Carter Mod. Flax, Hemp, & Jute Spinning 170 The strands from the register or stranding machine are put into a laying or closing machine.
14. Chiefly North American = cash register n. at cash n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] > till or cash-register
till-box1692
till1698
lob1819
Peter1827
damper1846
cash register1879
register1879
1879 Boston Daily Globe 16 Feb. 4 (advt.) Merchants and business men generally will find it to their interest to adopt the Register, it is a perfect little detective, and is warranted to register accurately.
1896 Washington Post 19 July 3/3 [He] sent the bellboy from the room just at the moment when he could have accomplished the removal of the money from the register.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Apr. 13/4 Two robbers..took $160, all the money in the register, and made good their escape.
1976 ‘E. McBain’ Guns vii. 148 Colley wishes he could see into the open drawer of the register.
2007 Washington Post 1 June (Home ed.) c2/6 The practice of clerks trying to sell the customer more items once they're at the register..we called..‘plus-selling’.
15. Art and Architecture. Each of a number of bands or sections into which a design, facade, etc., is divided.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistically conceived design > part of
compartment1564
copartiment1590
contour1662
register1937
1937 Discovery Sept. 287/1 As a rule these plant designs [on Jhukar pottery] were painted in black, or a deep purple, the red being used for the broad bands separating the registers.
1966 B. Roniger & N. Dunn tr. V. N. Lazarev Old Russ. Murals & Mosaics i. 39 In the middle register of the apse is the great monumental composition of the Eucharist.
1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Feb. 137/3 The outside [of a conical drinking-horn] is decorated in paint or in enamel. There are two upper registers with scenes of animals and hunters.
1999 D. Lorton tr. E. Hornung Anc. Egyptian Bks. of Afterlife 64 In the lower register, a continuous rope connects all the figures; the sun god is depicted in the center as a falcon.
2002 D. Perring Rom. House in Brit. vi. 111 The collapsed wall included a register of three clerestory windows separated by mortared columns.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense I.)
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1646 Plymouth Laws 86 Every father, or mother..shall certify to the Towne cleark or register keeper, the name and day of the birth of every child.
1696 Pub. Gen. Acts (1697) 489 Divers evil disposed Persons so Registred..have fraudulently lent their Register Certificates to divers Mariners..who were not Registred.
1716 J. Digby tr. A. de Wicquefort Embassador & his Functions Index Register Clerk in Holland, what Office he exercises.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 13 The old Register Certificate being pretty much torn, and the Property now altered, accordingly a new Register Certificate was taken out.
1824 Times 9 Feb. 2/5 The register clerk, who takes a detailed examination of every applicant.
1836 Act 6 & 7 William IV c. 86 §14 The Register Books..shall be always kept in the Register Box, and the Register Box shall always be left locked.
1840 Times 31 Dec. 6/1 Every person included in the register of the 1st class shall be supplied with a register certificate.
1872 Times 8 Oct. 3/3 Lieut. Curtis was in command of the battery, Sergt.-Major French the register keeper, and Gunner Dawe the marker.
1992 Managerial & Decision Econ. 13 361/1 The floor clerk assists the register clerk by processing inventory tags and sacking merchandise.
1993 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 26 July A register certificate protects against repossession by a financier.
2003 J. Alswang S. Afr. Dict. Sport 222/1 A dowel..is inserted into the shot hole,..so that the shooter and register keeper can see the exact position of the hit on the target.
b. (In sense 10.)
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1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 3 Some Furnaces have three partitions, as the Furnace for Reverberation, and the Register Furnace.
1788 J. Byng Diary 22 Aug. in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 370 All the rich and gay world, huddled together in London, on Turkey carpets, before register stoves,..can but little conceive the pangs of poverty.
1812 Times 29 May 2/2 The principal apartments are fitted up with marble chimney pieces, and steel register grates.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. iii. 36 A nice small pattern, just the very thing for register stoves.
1989 H. Lander & P. Rauter Eng. Cottage Interiors 112 The fireplace has a typical cast-iron register grate with hoop-shaped opening.
1993 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 52 38/1 A fireplace was created in the study, and register stoves were inserted.
C2. (In sense 11a. Cf. registering adj.)
register head n. now rare
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1795 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 424 The brass register-head, by means of which the expansion or contraction was measured.
1869 T. Maclear in R. Noble Cape & its People 402 Two opposite micrometer microscopes, whose register heads are divided to single seconds.
2002 J. Thornton Water Loss Control Man. xiv. 362 The register head then fits back on top of the sensor to continue recording consumption.
register pyrometer n. now historical and rare
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1830 J. F. Daniell in Philos. Trans. 120 257 (title) On a new register-pyrometer, for measuring the expansion of solids.
1905 Science 20 Oct. 485/2 Awards... 1832. John Frederic Daniell, experiments with a new register pyrometer for measuring the expansion of solids.
1995 H. Andersen Hist. Sci. Instrum. Denmark 66/1 Daniell's register pyrometer.
register thermometer n. now historical and rare
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1812 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Feb. 138 It would be impossible to keep a correct account, without the use of a register thermometer.
1891 Birmingham Daily Post 19 Jan. 5/7 Unfortunately, the register thermometer at the Observatory was deranged on that day.
2001 C. Jungnickel & R. McCormmach Cavendish (ed. 2) iii. iv. 385 It [sc. a float thermometer] was used by Cavendish to calibrate his register thermometer.
C3. † register vessel n. Obsolete = register ship n.2
register act n. now historical any of several acts, dating from the late 17th cent., that made provision for the registration of the ships and seamen of the British merchant navy.The first Act of 1696 provided for a voluntary register of seamen. Though tried in the late 17th cent. and the mid 19th cent. as a means of augmenting the Navy in time of war, the registration of seamen was never successful, and was abandoned. The first effective Act for the registration of ships was passed in 1786, from which date registration has been continuous and is still required by law. The Merchant Shipping Act (1854, revised 1894) consolidated previous acts, and is the basis of the modern system. See R. Temperley Merchant Shipping Acts (ed. 3) (1922) pp. 156–7.
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1777 London Mag. June 294/1 No objects had been more fully considered, or more wisely provided for, than the encouragement of seamen and the manning of the navy; more than twenty different acts, to answer those purposes, having passed from the time of the register act in 1696.
1814 Q. Rev. Jan. 469 As the governors and principal officers of customs in India are under the East India Company and not officers of the crown, and therefore not described in the register act, such certificates have been withheld.
1840 Shee Abbott's Merchant Ships (ed. 6) 58 The old Register Acts contained no provision for registering ships in the territories under the government of the East India Company.
1901 Times 17 Dec. 14/2 The plaintiff had taken possession of a stranded ship under a transfer void for non-compliance with the Register Acts.
1955 T. S. Ashton Econ. Hist. England: 18th Cent. v. 144 In 1760..the real tonnage might have been ‘full fifty per cent above the reputed’. In 1786, however, the Register Act sought to correct the disparity.
1987 H. J. Bourguignon Sir William Scott (2004) ii. 56 Two poorly drafted statutes, Lord Liverpool's Register Acts, which concerned registration of ships.
register board n. Printing and Photography a flat surface fitted with pegs or guides, enabling sheets of paper or film placed on it to be brought into alignment.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > device for exact positioning of each sheet
register board1967
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > other processing or printing equipment
filter paper1670
buffer1854
fuming-box1874
squeegee1878
light trap1881
changing table1882
print-washer1889
washer1891
safe lamp1893
rectifier1921
apron1935
register board1967
1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Graphic Arts Procedures: Offset Processes viii. 331 The register board..performs a very important part in obtaining accurate registration by providing a mechanism to jog each sheet into exactly the same position for entry into the head of the press.
1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 245 (caption) Take a negative 2¼ ins sq..and attach it to a strip of film which has been punched to fit the register board.
2000 Printing World (Nexis) 11 Sept. 17 It boasts a 30in long register board and can operate at speeds up to 20,000 sheets per hour.
register frame n. (a) a frame for supporting a register (in various senses); (b) a frame used to facilitate alignment or registration (registration n. 3).
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1845 Rep. 14th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1844 254 The table on which the register-frame is supported is five feet long.
1885 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 4th Ser. 213/1 The register-frame is placed on the bed, and black-leaded, the forme is placed inside.
1915 R. C. Carpenter Heating & Ventilating Buildings (ed. 6) 388 Measuring the air discharged from a register requires the use of a temporary pipe or tube of the size of the register frame.
1990 J. Ross et al. Compl. Printmaker (rev. ed.) 30 When printing color blocks, always place the block..into the register frame in the same way for each printing to achieve a consistent register.
register mark n. Photography and Printing any of a set of marks used to achieve register when printing images (cf. sense 12c).
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society > communication > printing > printers' symbols and directions > [noun] > mark to control position
registration mark1894
register mark1905
1905 Photo-miniature Oct. 26 You will naturally discover about the proper place for the register mark, but to be absolutely accurate you must select two certain points..which will be exactly the same distance apart in each negative.
1927 H. Hubbard Colour Block Print Making 208 Register marks, in colour printing, marks for controlling the position of the paper in printing to ensure register.
1971 D. Potter Brit. Elizabethan Stamps xv. 174 Autotron marks, long bars, provide the electronic check for colour registration. Register marks..serve a similar purpose.
2004 L. Cresswell et al. Product Design: Graphics with Materials Technol. (ed. 2) 33/2 Specialist computer software automatically generates register marks.
register point n. Printing any of a number of pins fixed to the tympan of a printing press which hold and locate a sheet to ensure accurate alignment; = point n.1 21f.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > tympan > point
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1858 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Photogr. 121 Register is obtained by puncturing the sheets to be printed with holes exactly corresponding with the dots on the negative, the said holes being placed over two register points.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1905/2 These are the equivalents of the register-points of the chromo-lithographic process or the typographic printing in colors.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 658/1 Point holes (Print.), punctures made in the printed sheet by the spurs of the register points.
register sheet n. (a) Printing a sheet used to obtain the precise alignment of a page so that register (sense 12b) is achieved; (b) a sheet of paper constituting a register, or on which a register is kept.
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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 288 He lays another Sheet even upon the Tympan-sheet, for a Register Sheet.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 336 He lays another sheet..upon the Tympan-sheet.., and Pulls these two sheets. Then he..turns the other side of the Register-Sheet..and Pulls upon that the second side of the Register-sheet.
1836 Times 15 Feb. 3/3 No one could vote at an election unless his name had been inscribed on the register-sheet.
1917 F. S. Henry Printing for School & Shop xiv. 241 Registering can be facilitated by..oiling a register-sheet so that the impression can be seen through it, and then moving the register-sheet so that it is in register with the impression on the draw-sheet.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. of Bk. 343/2 Register sheet, the sheet used to obtain correct register or position of the printed page.
1997 Calif. Law Rev. 85 1586 Looking at the register sheet, I ask, ‘Do I need to sign in?’
2001 M. C. Thomsett Builder's Guide to Accounting (rev. ed.) ii. xi. 125 Unless you have a very wide register sheet, that won't leave enough columns to distribute your other payments.
register ticket n. now historical a certificate from the Registrar of Seamen confirming that a person is registered and suitably qualified for employment in the merchant navy.
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1699 G. Byrne Several Instances Wrongs & Oppress. Sailers sig. A2v The Seaman is glad to sell his Register Ticket for 10 s. in the Pound.
1702 Present Condition Eng. Navy 20 Abundance of Mony has been yearly stopt our of the Wages of the Sailors of England, according to the Act of Parliament for registring of Seamen; but I don't hear that any of the Register Tickets have been paid.
1844 Act 7 & 8 Victoria c. 112 §20 Every Person..intending to serve on board any Ship..is hereby required to provide himself with a Register Ticket.
1989 A. Marsh Hist. National Union Seamen (BNC) 13 The Register Ticket could be bought at many lodging houses.
register valve n. a valve controlling the supply of something, esp. air.
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1842 T. Graham Elements Chem. ii. v. 443 The current of air through the furnace is regulated by a register valve in the chimney.
1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 583/2 A metal pin..rested on the front end of the ‘register-valve’ as it was called.
1920 C. L. Hubbard Ventilation Hand Bk. (ed. 2) ix. 149 Sometimes sufficient diffusion may be obtained by using an ordinary register valve back of the cast iron face.
2008 D. Annaratone Steam Generators v. 106 The tank can be kept under light pressure through connection of a register valve to a nitrogen bottle.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > [noun] > trading to or from specific place > under licence to Spanish America
register ship1708
register vessel1728
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Register In the years 1702, 1703, &c. these Register Vessels..sold their Commodities for above three hundred per Cent. Profit.
?1795 A. Grant Progress & Pract. Mod. Attorney 162 She fell in with and captured a rich Spanish register vessel.
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registern.2
/ˈrɛdʒᵻstə/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəstər/ The keeper of a register; = registrar n. Now chiefly U.S.Common from the late 16th to early 19th centuries.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > registrar
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a1443 Chancery Petitions (Public Rec. Office) Ser. CP1 File 12 No. 195 John Twynyng..procured one John Baroun, late register to John, late bysshop of landaff, and ordinary of the seid Prioury.
1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 19 All judges, aduocates, registers and scribes, proctours..and apparitours and all other.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 194 Thomas Laurence the Register of Canterbury..[was] attainted of misprision..of the same treason.
1603 Humble Petit. Ministers Ch. Eng. §4 That none having jurisdiction or Register places, put out the same to farme.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 39 At the first, he was no better then a Register, or the Kings remembrancer, or Secretary.
1653 Kidderminster Reg. (Worcestershire Rec. Office) (ref. X985, Bulk Accession No. 4653/1 (ii)) A true and perfect register of all birthes of children weddinges and Burials..after the 29th day of September Anno Domini 1653 By Edward Climar. late before Chosen and Elected Register.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors vi. 366 It hath been found by the Register's Office of the Chancery, that the King [of Persia] gets out of the Suburbs of Isaphan [sic]..neer forty thousand Crowns.
a1704 T. Brown Dialogue Oxf. Schollars in Wks. (1707) I. i. 5 The Bishops Secretary or Register will present me with some Parchments and Wax.
1735 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston 129 The Town will proceed to the Choice of a..Register of Deeds for the County of Suffolk.
1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 500 To discharge the functions of notaries and registers of the consulate.
1816 W. Scott in Raine Mem. Surtees (1852) 166 My friend Thomas Thomson, the Deputy Register of Scotland.
1837 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 93 There will also be in time a Registrar, or, as they spell it here, ‘Register’, but none is appointed yet.
1894 N.Y. Suppl. 28 485 By a clerical error the copyist in the register's office inserted in the record of the mortgage the name ‘Ganed’, instead of ‘Gault’, as the mortgagee.
1902 Rep. Librarian of Congress 44 The Register of Copyrights in his report..calls special attention to the need of indexing the earlier series of record books.
1948 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 7 Apr. 13/7 He is the Register of Wills. That's what the state constitution calls him.
1997 Federal News Service (Nexis) 30 Oct. As the Register of Copyrights concluded,..the existing compulsory licenses need substantial reform.
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Register Accomptant n. (also Register Accountant) now historical during the 17th cent.: (perhaps) a public accountant.
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1646 Ordinance 16 Nov. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) I. 383 The said Register Accomptant shall make true Certificate of all such Debts which he shall find to be justly charged, together with the Interest due to the same unto the Treasurer.
1657 Exact Abridgm. of Publick Acts & Ordinances of Parl. 261 That for and during the pleasure of both Houses of Parliament, there shall be an Register Accomptant who shall keep a true and plaine account of all and every debt and debts due or owing by the Parliament..which Register Accomptant shall have power to view, peruse, and take copies of all Books, Writings, and Entries.
1663 J. Heath Chron. Late Intestine War (ed. 2) ii. 536 The Estates of them all being vested in the hands of William Skinner, William Robinson,..and Arthur Samuel, as Trustees; Robert Manwaring Register Accountant, Randal Manwaring Comptroller, and Iohn Baker Surveyor General.
1949 Eng. Hist. Rev. 64 46 (note) William Benson was a ‘register-accomptant’ for the sale of forfeited estates.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
registerv.
/ˈrɛdʒᵻstə/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəstər/ 1. † b. transitive. To set down in writing. Obsolete. rare.† c. transitive. To identify (a person) as being something; to consider as; to take a person for. Obsolete.† d. transitive. In passive with perfect infinitive. To be recorded (to have done or been something). Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To record; to set down (facts, names, etc.) in writing, esp. accurately or officially. Also figurative.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > observe, note [verb (transitive)]
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society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)]
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to take down1651
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (transitive)]
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muster1587
immatriculate1602
imbreviate1609
re-register1807
to check in or out1918
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 3031 (MED) Bonefas..for hunger..deide..Of whom the wrytinge is yit now Registred.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 4254 (MED) To Petrak Fraunceis was ȝouen..To be registred in þe house of fame.
a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) 604 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 424 (MED) As it is remembryd in historye And registred be old antiquyte.
a1500 (c1445) J. Lydgate Miracles St. Edmund l. 389 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 445 (MED) Thy spere greetly did avaylle Ageyn kyng Sweyn, a thyng notable & digne To be regestryd and shewyd for a signe.
c1500 in H. A. Person Cambr. Middle Eng. Lyrics (1953) 15 O excellent herber of louely countenaunce Ye regystre my loue in your remembraunce.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. Prol. f. iii Of bothe landes the Cronycles entiere With other matiers whiche Regystred be.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 433 Rychard Whittyngton..hath right well deserued to be regestred in the boke of fame.
?1587 R. Southwell Epist. Comfort xiii. f. 185v Of so manye hundredes of heretickes that haue bene..put to death,..whome haue you emongest all aunciente authores, that doth register them as Martyrs, yea that condemneth them not for obstinate heretickes?
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Bv With my trustie sword..Ile register vpon his helme, What I dare doo.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 90 Those that had bin sicke, vpon recouery there registered their cures, and the experiments wherby they were effected.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 335 Such follow him, as shall be registerd Part good, part bad, of bad the longer scrowle. View more context for this quotation
1758 S. Johnson Idler 5 Aug. 137 Some register the changes of the wind.
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 530 The fatal hour Was registered in heaven ere time began.
1796 P. W. Fogg Diss. Grammatical & Philol. xxvii. 114 The humble province of the practical grammarian is to register the tongue in its present state, with all its blemishes and obliquities.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 36 Observations on the hygrometer, have not been..so diligently registered..as appears desirable.
1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. i. 21 To know all that can be known about his wishes and character, and to register this knowledge in exact terms.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 211 Such appears to have been the succession of events registered by these ruins.
1905 Outlook 15 Apr. 963/2 Those of us who entered our protest..are grateful for your..admitting that ‘it indicates a great ethical advance’. Surely it is worth much to register this wholesome movement towards a cleaner business life.
1997 J. L. Heskett et al. Service Profit Chain x. 182 New Boeing 767 and 777 aircraft were equipped with keypads on which customers could register complaints from their seats.
2003 T. Ebina et al. in N. Carbonell & C. Stephanidis Universal Access i. 80 The..system allows disaster victims to register their survival information (kind of injuries, damage to property, etc.) through the Internet.
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1597 W. Burton tr. Achilles Tatius Most Delectable & Pleasaunt Hist. Clitiphon & Leucippe vii. 131 Thersander caused his oath to be registred down, that he was altogether ignorant what was become of Sosthenes.
a1631 J. Downe Def. Lawfulnesse of Lots in Gaming in Certaine Treat. (1633) 21 It was not the purpose of the holy Ghost to register downe in the Scripture all whatsoeuer his Servants had done.
1683 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 76 They framed themselves into a solemn meeting, had discourses, and the discourses were registered down by Dr. Plot.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xvi. 93 No subject would go down but the heavy blow he had sustain'd from the loss of a son, whom it seems he had fully reckon'd upon in his mind, and registered down in his pocket-book, as a second staff for his old age.
1797 tr. S. A. D. Tissot Life Zimmerman 13 Zimmerman..registered down his experiments, his researches, and his reflections, in a thesis.
1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate I. iv. 98 I'll bet a shilling the main part of what I'm going to tell you is registered down in the chronicles of Boston jail.
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society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)] > enter on record
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1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvi. 224 Him we may register for a man fortunate.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iii. i. 81 He deserueth to be registred for a foole.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Macc. viii. 20 That we might be registred, your confederats and friends. View more context for this quotation
1735 London Mag. Apr. 176/2 He will be registered for a Fool (which is the greatest Punishment, that can be inflicted on a Demon.
1779 S. J. Pratt Shenstone-Green III. lvii. 119 Register me, Mr. President, if you please as a friend to Spinoza.
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1606 H. Clapham Abstr. Fayth v. 25 The Apostle Paul is registred to haue gone too and fro, establishing the Churches.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xix. §3. 521 He..was..the first that is registred, to haue set vp irreligion by force.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 806 In the Manuscript..these Carmelites following are registered to haue beene buried in this Monastery.
1794 J. Watt in T. Beddoes & J. Watt Considerations Medicinal Use & Production Factitious Airs i. 20 A whelp, which had respired atmospheric mixed with one-third of oxygenic air for thirty-four minutes, is registered to have been as much alive as before immersion under water.
e. transitive. In extended use: to record in one's mind, heart, or memory; (in later use) to become aware of, to notice properly.
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1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xix. 111 When the Ideas that offer themselves..are taken notice of, and, as it were, registred in the Memory, it is Attention.
1715 Philos. Enq. i. iv. 61 Such Determinations to be registered in the Memory, that they may be ready, upon all Occasions, to be produced.
1760 C. Lennox Lady's Museum No. 5. 372 Now what is learning a language? is it not to register in the memory a great number of words?
1805 H. K. White Let. 10 Sept. in Remains (1807) I. 174 Many a flower, which in the passing time My heart hath register'd.
1891 ‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin I. iii. 53 He was always..experiencing something... Always registering impressions, making observations.
1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying viii. 198 For the twentieth time, with a faint malaise, he registered the thought: five quid for Julia.
1990 S. Grafton G is for Gumshoe vii. 72 Dimly, I registered the now empty highway. No help in sight.
2007 J. Flanagan Icebound Land xxii. 147 For the first time, he registered the presence of a dark, indistinct shape in the shadows... He also registered the longbow, with a second arrow nocked ready to the string.
2.
a. transitive. To make formal entry of (a fact, document, etc.) in a register; to cause this to be done. Also: to enter a name in a register (frequently as a legal requirement), esp. as being of a specified category or having a particular eligibility or entitlement. Also intransitive.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (transitive)] > in a particular register
registerc1400
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vesp.) (1873) C. xxiii. 271 (MED) I-registred [c1400 Huntington 137 Ich wolde..þat ȝe were in registre And ȝoure numbre vnder notarie signe].
a1444 in Cal. Proc. Chancery Queen Elizabeth (1827) I. p. xl (MED) They being within the Saintuarie of Saint Katerins biside the Toure of London and there registred as Saintuarye men.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 43 He that registerith it to haue a competent reward..and that this forseyd wryting be registerid also.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 683/1 My fathers wyll is regystred in the bysshops courte.
1547 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. I. 79 Ordanis the Clerk of Register to extend the samyn act..and to register the samin in the bukis of Counsale.
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus v. sig. M1 All that are fathers and are registred fathers,..we warne or commavnd yov be freqvently present. View more context for this quotation
1617 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 546/2 So proportionallie for everie page..for registring of everie ane of þe saidis evidentis.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 12 I can both in England and Wales Register my Wedding, my Burial, and my Christening,..and that which is Register'd there, is good by our Law.
1764 G. G. Beekman Let. 29 Oct. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 476 The time will not Permit me to take A Copy [of the original bonds] Or have them Registerd.
1769 Oxf. Mag. Oct. 133/2 That great society of men who have registered him as a brother volunteer in the service of his country.
1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 231 The edict for the stamp tax has been the subject of reiterated orders and refusals to register.
1794 Cases Manumission of Negroes (Supreme Court, New Jersey) 9 The Term..fixed in the said Act for registering Slaves.
1825 Act 6 George IV c. 110 §2 The said Ship or Vessel..has been duly registered at the Port.
1832 J. G. Smith Santarem viii. 107 The authorities having registered him as the responsible occupant, had not only shewed their spite at a loyal subject,..but had insulted us all.
1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 6 The great bulk of our luggage had been registered through to Paris.
1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan I. ii. xvi. 297 My last letter..was registered for security.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) ii. iii. 171 All land in the Paumotus must be defined and registered by a certain date.
1930 Times 22 Feb. 12/2 The recurrence of the epidemic was noticed in October and November, when 100 cases were registered in the Moscow district.
1950 A. C. Smith Dogs since 1900 xi. 179 Some of their admirers..asked permission to have them registered at the Kennel Club as Norwich Terriers.
1988 Times of India 23 Feb. i. 3/1 The police said a case had been registered and efforts were being made to trace the girl.
1990 B. Bettelheim Recoll. & Refl. iii. 196 He postponed registering the birth of his only son, Henryk, in consequence of which it is still unknown whether Henryk was born on July 22 of 1878 or 1879.
b. transitive (reflexive). To cause one's name to be entered in a register, to get oneself on to a register. Usually with as or for.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (reflexive)]
act1492
register?1530
?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Fiiiv [She] there regystarde her selfe as a sentwary woman.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 706 [She] departed to a Sentuarie there by called Beauliew..and registred her selfe and hers, as persons there priuileged.
1695 Act 7 & 8 Will. III (1696) 478 A Natural born Subject of this Realm..Who shall be willing to Enter and Register himself for the Service of His Majesty.
1751 W. Blennerhassett New Hist. Eng. II. xix. 743 He, and several of his Company, registered themselves Sanctuary-Men.
1789 Votes House of Commons of Irel. 25 Apr. 501 That the clerk of the peace for the county of Waterford do return to this House a list of the persons who registered themselves as inhabitants of the borough of Dungarvan.
1833 H. J. Perry & J. W. Knapp Cases Controverted Elections in Eleventh Parl. United Kingdom 4 A man ought to register himself as owner of an annuity some months before the commencement of the period of possession.
1856 G. D. Brewerton War in Kansas 83 General P—— alias Mr. Sam Clarke (for our Free State ‘militaire’ had..found it more convenient, and it may be safer, to register himself in that name, of which more anon).
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 5 They..could have registered themselves in the census..as members of the Church of England.
1914 in Statute Law of S. Rhodesia (1939) II. 287 Every male native within the Colony over the apparent age of fourteen years shall register himself at the proper pass office.
1991 South Aug. 30/1 Few of the 100,000 rural families that received agrarian reform titles in the 1980s actually registered themselves as the new owners.
2002 S. Senders in D. Rock & S. Wolff Coming Home to Germany i. v. 92 She had even gone so far as to register herself in her first domestic passport as a Russian.
c. intransitive with reflexive meaning.
(a) = sense 2b.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (intransitive)]
register1837
to sign up1926
1837 Minutes Evid. Longford Election Petitions 20 in Parl. Papers X. 107 He said he thought he paid enough, and if he had to register again, he would not do it.
1844 London Med. Gaz. 8 Nov. 203/2 The Universities will create bachelors of medicine at 22, upon which they may register as authorized practitioners.
1863 A. A. Redfield Handbk. U.S. Tax Law (ed. 3) ii. 116 Any person desiring to obtain a license..must register with the assistant assessor of the assessment district.
1895 N.Y. Times 25 Feb. 10/5 Each entering student as he registered was asked..to fill out a blank stating whether or not he was a church member.
1902 Woman Suffrage Hearing (U.S. Senate Sel. Comm. on Woman Suffrage) 38 I took several of the ladies of my own parish and went with them to register.
1924 Univ. Chicago Reg. 103 Register, in the same office, for the courses of study desired for the ensuing quarter.
1940 Economist 26 Oct. 521/2 Special delivery certificates have been issued for householders who must register with a single coal merchant.
1977 Time 17 Jan. 24/2 This presumably would include all those civilians who fled the country to avoid the draft, simply failed to register or refused to submit to induction.
2004 L. Aiken Tuning in iv. 116 At the end of his residency, he registered to take his licensing boards in surgery.
(b) Originally U.S. spec. To enter one's name in the register of a hotel or guest house.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (intransitive)] > enter oneself or have one's name entered
sign1768
register1850
to sign on1886
society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (transitive)] > in register of hotel or guest house
register1850
book1899
1850 M. Reid Rifle Rangers I. v. 52 Take your supper, engage a snug room, and wait for me. Don't register till I come—I'll attend to that.
1891 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Dec. 96/2 I arrived in Washington, registered at the Arlington Hotel, and went to my room.
1905 A. Bennett Tales of Five Towns ii. 264 ‘You haven't registered,’ Nina called to him... He advanced to sign.
1922 H. Titus Timber xv. 136 She..stopped her car at the Commercial Hotel where she registered and was given a room.
1936 G. B. Shaw Millionairess iv, in Simpleton, Six, & Millionairess 187 You have allowed my husband to bring a woman to my hotel and register her in my name.
1967 J. R. S. Beavis & S. Medlik Man. Hotel Recept. ii. 12 The receptionist should hand the pen to the guest when asking him to register.
1984 F. Forsyth Fourth Protocol ii. ix. 154 Preston registered into the hotel on Van Der Walt street.
2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 25 Mar. i. 2/3 City Hall has always had a hiring program for ex-cons or guys who might someday register at the Gray-Bar Hotel for an extended stay.
d. intransitive. Originally and chiefly North American. To establish a list of preferred gifts using a registry (registry n. 5); to make known one's desire for a gift in this way. Also transitive (in passive).
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1952 Los Angeles Times 27 Apr. iii. 11/6 The Bride's Notebook..is a gift from Sloane's to brides who register at the Bridal Registry service, where prospective brides are invited to list their preferences in silver, china, glass, home furnishings, etc.
1975 S. F. Porter Sylvia Porter's Money 695 Find out if and where the bride has registered for gifts.
1991 Washington Post 30 May (Home section) 13/2 Discreet cards saying, ‘For your convenience, the bride is registered at..’, which can properly be sent by a hostess with shower invitations.
1994 Canad. Jewish Times 29 Sept. 7/1 (advt.) Henry's new Bar Mitzvah gift registry. Visit either Henry's location and register for photo, video, audio, or other related items.
2007 Huntsville (Alabama) Times (Nexis) 28 Jan. 1 f If you've been invited to an engagement party and the couple hasn't registered yet, take the opportunity to be creative.
3. transitive. Rope-making. To form (a strand) by the use of a register (register n.1 13). Also intransitive. Now historical and rare.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > make rope [verb (transitive)] > other specific processes
lay1486
throw?c1625
register1793
re-lay1804
warp1815
to lay upc1860
tube1863
wimble1874
strand1886
fluff1892
1793 J. Huddart Brit. Patent 1952 3 The spindle is turning in, registering the strand.
1800 Remarks on Patent Registered Cordage (Huddart & Co.) 3 He has invented a method of manufacturing cordage, whereby every yarn holds a situation in the strand, in which it bears its proportion of the strain of the rope. This is termed registering the strands.
1855 W. Cotton Brief Mem. Capt. Joseph Huddart 26 In order to render them impervious to water, it was necessary to register them at a higher angle.
1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) III. 578 Captain Huddart invented and took a patent for a machine which, by registering the strand at a short length from the tube, and winding it up as made, preserved an uniformity of twist.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 352/1 Fibres are spun into yarn, yarns are registered into strands, and strands are laid into rope.
1968 W. Tyson Rope i. iii. 10 In 1799 Huddart patented..a means of registering the strands at a short length from the tube and winding up the rope as made, thus preserving a uniformity of twist.
4.
a. transitive. Of an instrument or device: to respond to; esp. to respond to and indicate automatically. Also figurative. Cf. register n.1 11a.
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society > communication > indication > [verb (transitive)] > on recording device
showc1392
register1797
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)]
register1797
write1886
record1888
can1907
re-record1927
pre-record1941
pretape1958
audiotape1961
society > communication > record > written record > be recorded in writing [verb (intransitive)] > of instruments: to record, indicate
register1797
1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 498/2 He proposes to adapt clock-work to this thermometer, in such a way as to register..the degrees of heat and cold.
1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Perambulator, or Measuring Wheel, an instrument which being run along a road or other level surface indicates and registers the exact distance it passes over.
1877 Nature 24 May 59/1 In the hottest province..the thermometer never registered above 74° before sunrise.
1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby i. 2 One of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
1968 S. W. Carabatsos in J. Blish Star Trek 2 80 It's a dolorimeter—registers the level of pain.
1978 Sci. Amer. July 58/1 The camera required for registering the fluorescent light must be much more elaborate.
1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae xxiv. 654 Her poems are thermal sensors, registering nature's surges of animating energy.
2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 July 60 If there were a thermometer on the wall of the room..it would register a sudden temperature drop.
b. transitive. U.S. Of a measured quality, esp. temperature: to attain (a particular value) as shown by a measuring instrument; (hence) to reach (a value).
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1871 N.Y. Herald 16 Dec. 10/2 The temperature registers 9 degrees above zero at Montreal, Canada.
1904 D. D. Allison in T. G. Daniells California 90 In this locality, when the temperature registers 110 degrees..the effect is not at all similar to that produced..in the states east of the Rocky mountains.
1915 Jrnl. Iowa State Med. Soc. 10 407/2 Pulse is 120; temperature is 98 4/ 3; respiration 30; blood pressure registers 220.
1988 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator 19 Apr. b1/3 Noise measurements taken last summer registered more than 100 decibels.
2008 Washington Post (Nexis) 24 Dec. f8 Add the milk and stir to combine until just warmed through; the mixture's temperature should register 120 to 130 degrees.
c. intransitive. To produce a response in or be detected by an instrument or device.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (intransitive)]
register1893
record1923
the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [verb (intransitive)] > produce a response on a measuring instrument
register1893
1893 C. D. Perrine Earthquakes Calif. 1892 17 The earthquake registered [sc. on a seismograph] in Oakland in bold handwriting, but its signature was different from that made in this city.
1939 Condor 41 146 Several minutes before light registered on the meter, the bird huddled close to the wire.
1974 Nature 6 Sept. 19/1 The ion energies were too small to register.
1983 S. Marshak & M. Culbreath Triangle xxxi. 167 There was some kind of psionic field which did not register on McCoy's scanners, but gave him the personal collywobbles.
2008 Chem. Physics 350 121/1 As the laser is tuned there is a risk that images obtained will not register.
d. transitive. Of a person, his or her facial expression, etc.: to indicate or convey (a feeling or emotion).
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society > communication > expression > [verb (transitive)]
abroachc1400
figure1475
express1549
unload1561
vent1602
speaka1616
extrinsicate1645
to set out1684
ventilate1823
exhibit1849
register1901
1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady vi. viii. 568 The brightness died out of Honoria's face. She registered sharp annoyance against herself.
1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh iii. 56 A stage-director of a moving-picture firm would have recognized the look; Lord Emsworth was ‘registering’ interest.
1925 A. P. Herbert Laughing Ann 32 For I don't have no adventure in the street, Men don't register emotion when we meet.
1977 Private Eye 29 Apr. 3/3 On being told, her face registered shock and horror.
2002 A. McCall Smith Kalahari Typing School for Men iii. 28 Only now and then did she seem to register disappointment, and that was never for more than a few moments.
e. intransitive. To make an impression, have an effect; esp. to make the intended impression. Frequently with on, upon, with.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > be affected by impression [verb (intransitive)] > have effect
to pierce one's stomach1509
reverberate1608
impose1625
bite1638
to strike home1694
to cut ice (with someone)1894
register1913
project1933
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (intransitive)] > in specific manner
to tear a (the) cat1600
to top one's part1672
to walk through ——1824
corpse1874
sketch1888
underplay1896
to play for laughs (also a laugh)1900
register1913
scene-steal1976
1913 Esenwein & Leeds Writing Photoplay 24 It is sometimes said that an effect, a bit of business, or an emotion which an actor is endeavoring to portray, ‘will not register’, meaning that it will not ‘get across’ or be understood by the audience in the way intended by the producer.
1915 N.Y. Times 1 Nov. 11 This new movie star ‘registers’, as the film folk have it.
1928 Sunday Disp. 16 Dec. 14/4 It looks..as though the producers had not been willing to risk spending money on it in case Miss Eagels did not register well.
1939 Punch 6 Sept. 255/1 I give a cough. A significant cough... The cough registers. Deep silence ensues.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 141/2 The slick-chick and the corporation executive, as they now register on the popular imagination, are already inside the totem machine.
1964 ‘A. Gilbert’ Knock, knock, who's There? i. 14 I couldn't help seeing the name... I looked sharply at Ted, wondering if it was going to register with him.
1977 Daily Mirror 16 Mar. 5/3 With the five-year-old it did not register.
2001 T. Goodkind Pillars of Creation xlviii. 582 The horror of what Jennsen was seeing was so profound that it didn't register in her mind; at least, it didn't register emotionally.
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a. intransitive. Printing and Photography. Esp. of images, pages, etc.: to coincide or correspond exactly. Cf. register n.1 12b, 12c.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > composing > compose [verb (intransitive)] > fit exactly
register1839
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 45/2 The printer superadds the impressions..taking great care that the two fit well, or ‘register’, as it is technically called.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 175 They are..adjusted until the impressions fit—‘register’, as it is called—as intended by the engraver.
1898 A. A. Hopkins Magic v. iii. 495 The film..goes to the toothed roller, C,..causing the images to register accurately.
1907 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 16 Feb. 334/2 The figures which have been printed in colors do not register well... Otherwise the book is an excellent product of the printer's art.
1939 K. Henney & B. Dudley Handbk. Photogr. xxii. 625 Care must be taken that the three film or plateholders register correctly.
2002 S. F. Ray Appl. Photogr. Optics (ed. 3) lii. 433 The three primary colour images must register accurately on the discrete pixels.
b. transitive. To position with precision, in order to ensure an exact correspondence of parts; to align.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > adapt or adjust [verb (transitive)] > exactly or precisely
justify1556
repair1691
register1887
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [verb (transitive)] > align (materials) precisely
register1887
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > have specific dimensions [verb (transitive)] > give size to or adjust size of > in order to fit or match
register1938
1887 Appletons' Ann. Cycl. 1886 278/2 In the finished photographs the stakes served to register the series, and when attached in a continuous strip the ten pictures..gave a continuous panorama of the field.
1938 A. E. Clayton Performance & Design Direct Current Machines (ed. 2) xv. 306 During construction, the core plates and vent spacers are threaded on the shaft, the driving key having previously been inserted, and serving to ‘register’ the plates in their correct position.
1976 Physics Bull. May 200/1 The images of the projected mask and the structure on the silicon wafer are superimposed and alignment is accomplished by registering the two images.
2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 190 Gauge pins were used on the press to register the paper in the same position for each impression.
c. transitive. Military. To sight a gun or guns on (a target); spec. to pre-record the position (in terms of azimuth, range, and angle of sight) of (a target) relative to a gun, in readiness for future engagement; (also) to sight (a gun) on its target.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > aim
register1914
to zero in1944
1914 Field Artillery Training (War Office) ix. 344 A battery..may be called upon to ‘register’ a certain zone or area of country. To do this the range should be obtained to various points in such a manner that fire may be opened rapidly on any objective that may subsequently appear.
1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War xx. 205 The shell-hole unerringly torn out by the far-off gunner ‘registering’ his targets.
1958 Observer 9 Feb. 11/4 The American Polaris..will free still further the Western nuclear deterrent from dependence on large static bases..which can be registered in advance.
1958 Listener 11 Sept. 386/3 The position had been liberally registered by Russian gunners from the city; hence the cannon balls.
1959 H. MacLennan Watch that ends Night iv. vii. 166 I had to spend ten hours in that hole with the body, for the machine guns were registered so close to the ground a rat couldn't have escaped.
2006 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 27 July 1 Israel knows these positions and they have had two weeks to zero in on this area and register targets.
6. transitive. To configure the stops of (a pipe organ) so as to produce a particular effect; to select the stops to be used in (a piece of music). Cf. registrate v. Also intransitive.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing keyboard instrument > play keyboard instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play organ
organ1827
register1852
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. vi. i. 115 In the next strain they play..with the left hand..upon a manual which contains some very strong registers, whilst the right hand plays some variations upon a manual which is but feebly registered.
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. vi. i. 116 If the organist registers but weakly, drawing perhaps only two or three registers, he must take care not to combine solely such registers as [etc.].
1877 Musical Standard 6 Oct. 210/2 It is a general rule, in ‘registering’ the organ, that the lower octave covers the higher—that an 8 ft. stop is absorbed by a 16 ft.
1880 D. Buck Illustr. Choir Accompanim. xii. 137 Let us now suppose the instrumental Bass to be registered with the Great Organ Open Diapason (or Bourdon) of sixteen feet, and the Principal or Octave of four feet.
1891 Times 22 Oct. 14/2 Admirably calculated to exhibit the player's skill in ‘registering’.
1956 Times 17 Mar. 3/3 The Andante in F for small clockwork organ was so registered as to sound like an elegant piece of galanterie.
2002 Church Times 1 Feb. 36/1 The Walford Davies pieces, lucidly registered on the subtly voiced Rothwell organ..are agreeable, if not all interesting.
7. transitive. To post (a result); to achieve (a victory) or suffer (a loss).
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1865 Med. Times & Gaz. 4 Feb. 122/1 The Horse Guards register another victory over the Doctors.
1889 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 8 907/1 Only two yielded a profit, whilst five registered a loss.
1891 Daily News 6 Nov. 2/6 After a long run by Hubbard, Fegan registered a try.
1933 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 96 288 Mid-American cotton was down and..Lincoln half hogs registered a considerable fall.
1996 Sun (Baltimore) 31 Dec. a8/1 Even in March when Mr. Dole registered a succession of victories, exit polls showed that half of GOP voters wanted someone else.
2008 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 26 Nov. c6 The Irish registered their first win over a Top 10 team since beating No. 4 Alabama in early 2006.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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