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单词 register
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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:

I registered the car in my name.
Within two weeks of arrival all foreigners had to register with the local police.
Students have to register for the new course by the end of April.

More examples

  • 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:

The Geiger counter registered a dangerous level of radioactivity.
The earthquake was too small to register on the Richter scale.
formal His face registered extreme disapproval of what he had witnessed.

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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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Showing and demonstrating

register verb (REALIZE)

[ I or T ] informal If something registers, someone realizes it and if someone registers something, they realize it:

I did mention the address but I'm not sure that it registered (with him).
I scarcely registered the fact that he was there.

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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:

a registered letter

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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:

Guests write their names in the (hotel) register.
Is your name on the register of voters?

[ C ] a book used to record if a child is present at school:

If a child is absent, the teacher notes it down in the (class) register.

[ 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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Schools in general

register noun (LANGUAGE STYLE)

C1 [ C or U ] specialized language the style of language, grammar, and words used for particular situations:

People chatting at a party will usually be talking in (an) informal register.

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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:

music written mainly for the lower/higher register of the clarinet

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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:

Next time you have the register open, could you give me some change?
I think these items have been rung up wrongly on the register.

registerverb

uk/ˈredʒɪstər/us

[ I or T ] to put information, especially the name of someone or something, on an official list or record:

Bids may be registered 24 hours a day.
to register a car/company/domain name
register as sth Investment advisers may need to register as brokers.
In the UK, a business is required to register for VAT.
register (sb/sth) with sth Hedge-fund managers must register the commission under the terms of the 1940 Investment Advisers Act.

[ I or T ] to record or show a measurement, an amount, etc.:

The built-in telephone line has registered 50 calls daily.
During the period under review, the company registered a 30% decline in gross profit.

[ T ] COMMUNICATIONS when you register a letter or package, you send it by mail using a special service, so that it will be dealt with in a special way and not be lost:

I'd like to register this parcel, please.
a registered letter

[ T ] to show your opinion or interest formally or officially:

The engineering arm of the company is said to have registered an interest by the bid deadline.

registernoun [ C ]

uk/ˈredʒɪstər/us

a book or record containing an official list of names, items, etc.:

a central/national register
guest/visitors' register All visitors to the company are asked to sign the visitors' register.
Issuing companies keep a register of bondholders.

US COMMERCE →  cash register

See also

cash register
charges register
companies register
directors' register
Land Charges Register
Lloyd's Register
members' register
property register
proprietorship register
register of charges
register of companies
register of directors
register of directors' interests
register of members
register of transfers
share register
shareholders' register
transfers register
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