registerverb
uk/ˈredʒ.ɪ.stər/us/ˈredʒ.ə.stɚ/register verb (PUT ON LIST)
B1 [ I or T ] to put information, especially your name, into an official list or record:
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- They always register their ships under a flag of convenience.
- Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulations.
- Increasingly, the unmarried father of a child in Europe registers his paternity at the baby's birth.
- You will need proof of identity to register at the library.
- Customers who register on-line will receive a ten percent discount.
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Writing & typing
- asterisk
- borrow
- chalk
- co-author
- compose
- copy
- creative writing
- enter
- fair sth out
- fire
- ghostwrite
- misspell
- orthography
- record
- run
- scrawl
- transcription
- typing
- write sth up
- written
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register verb (SHOW)
C2 [ I or T ] to record, show, or express something:
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Measuring & weighing
- cost-of-living index
- decibel
- life-size
- measure sb/sth up
- measure sth out
- measurement
- mmHg
- mmol
- pace
- pinhole
- plumb
- point
- quantifiable
- quantum
- record
- short
- sound
- timer
- tolerance
- unit
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register verb (REALIZE)
[ I or T ] informal If something registers, someone realizes it and if someone registers something, they realize it:
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Apparent and obvious
- apparent
- be (as) plain as the nose on your face idiom
- be (right) under your nose idiom
- be etched somewhere idiom
- be writ large idiom
- leap out at sb
- linear
- loud
- loud and clear idiom
- manifest
- manifestly
- marked
- publicly
- recognizable
- self-evident
- shine
- shine out
- shine through
- stare
- stark
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register verb (MAIL)
[ T ] If you register a letter or parcel, you send it using a special postal service, so that it will be dealt with in a special way and not be lost:
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Delivering and despatching
- air drop
- air-dash
- airlift
- consign
- containerize
- despatch
- drop
- enclose
- fire sth off
- forward
- get sth in
- reroute
- route
- send
- send sth in
- send sth off
- ship
- shipping
- trot
- trot sb out
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registernoun
uk/ˈredʒ.ɪ.stər/us/ˈredʒ.ə.stɚ/register noun (LIST)
[ C ] a book or record containing a list of names:
[ C ] a book used to record if a child is present at school:
[ U ] in school, the period at the start of the morning and afternoon when a teacher records on an official list that children are present
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Lists and catalogues
- a laundry list idiom
- a list as long as your arm idiom
- agenda
- archivist
- bucket list
- concordance
- GI
- honor roll
- honours list
- indices
- inventory
- laundry
- roster
- rota
- shortlist
- tally
- taxonomy
- transfer list
- wish list
- wordlist
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register noun (LANGUAGE STYLE)
C1 [ C or U ] specialized language the style of language, grammar, and words used for particular situations:
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Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- anaphor
- anaphora
- anaphoric
- double entendre
- ellipsis
- idiomatic
- irregular
- lexicology
- linguistic
- litotes
- neurolinguistics
- parallelism
- philology
- portmanteau word
- semantic
- semiotics
- stylistics
- tone language
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register noun (SOUNDS)
[ C ] all the notes that a musical instrument or a person's voice can produce, from the highest to the lowest:
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Notes of the musical scale
- A, a
- B, b
- C, c
- D, d
- doh
- E, e
- flat
- la
- lah
- lah 1
- major
- mi
- middle C
- minor
- scale
- semitone
- soh
- sol
- sol-fa
- te
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register noun (MONEY)
[ C ] mainly US UK usually till the drawer in a cash register (= a machine which records sales in a shop, and in which money is kept) or the cash register itself: