Register Meaning
/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.stə/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc.
nounA book of such entries.
Sentence Examples
Hunger compelled the boy to steal money from the cash register.
When did they register the names of the members?
The bride and groom signed the register.
CEFR Practice Quiz
All students must ____ for the new courses before the semester starts next week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She went to the town hall to ____ the birth of her daughter within the required time limit.
Word Origin & History
From Medieval Latin registrum, from Late Latin regesta (“list, items recorded”), from Latin regerō (“to record, to carry back”), from re- + gerō (“to carry, bear”). Compare Latin registoria (“a treasurer”). Some senses influenced by association with unrelated Latin regō (“to rule”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"As you have one eye upon my follies, […] turn another into the register of your own."
— c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
"The division of the field into an upper and lower register, with decorative motifs in the upper register and a scene with figures in the lower register, as here, is, as has been mentioned, characteristic of Syrian seals from the early second millennium."
— 1984, Beatrice Teissier, Ancient Near Eastern Cylinder Seals from the Marcopoli Collection, page 70:
"The east wall is decorated in raised relief with two registers of scenes above a dado showing a northward fecundity figure procession."
— 1989, Eleni Vassilika, Ptolemaic Philae, page 76:
"The reverse side is divided into three registers. In the first register is the name of Narmer represented as a fish and a chisel inscribed in the serekh."
— 2005, Abeer El-Shahawy, The Egyptian Museum in Cairo: A Walk Through the Alleys of Ancient Egypt, page 23:
"When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack."
— 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
All students must ____ for the new courses before the semester starts next week.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She went to the town hall to ____ the birth of her daughter within the required time limit.