register
English
/ˈɹɛdʒ.ɪs.tə/, /ˈɹɛdʒ.ɪs.tɚ/
noun
Definitions
- A formal recording of names, events, transactions etc.
- A book of such entries.
- An entry in such a book.
- The act of registering.
- A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.
- One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events.
- A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections
- A device that automatically records a quantity.
- (telecommunications) The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received.
- (telecommunications) A list of received calls in a phone set.
- (computing) A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs or intermediate results of computations.
- (printing) The exact alignment of lines, margins and colors.
- (printing) The inner part of the mould in which types are cast.
- (music) The range of a voice or instrument.
- (music) An organ stop.
- (linguistics) A style of a language used in a particular context.
- A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow.
- (mostly)
Etymology
Derived from Latin registrum, regesta, regero, regerere (carry back, record).
Origin
Latin
regero, regerere
Gloss
carry back, record
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- autoregister English
- coregister English
- deregister English
- enregister English
- inregister English
- misregister English
- nonregister English
- nonregisterable English
- preregister English
- quregister English
- regest English
- registerability English
- registerable English
- registeree English
- registerer English
- registerial English
- registerially English
- registership English
- registree English
- reregister English
- subregister English
- unregister English
- unregisterable English
- regere Latin
- regero, regerere Latin
- regerō Latin
- regesta Latin
- registrum Latin
- rego Latin
- reggere Italian
- registre French
- régie French
- régir French
- *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃réǵeti Proto-Indo-European
- register Norwegian Bokmål
- regjere Norwegian Bokmål
- register Swedish
- register Norwegian Nynorsk
- regere Danish
- reger Old French
- registre Old French
- registre Catalan, Valencian
- रजिस्टर Hindi
- reģistrs Latvian
- ရေစစ္စရီ Burmese
- register Old Swedish
- rezi Friulian