Register

Register

Definition: A written account or entry; an official or formal
enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll;
a schedule.

Register

Definition: A record containing a list and description of the
merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district.

Register

Definition: 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 an evidence of nationality or as a
muniment of title.

Register

Definition: One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder;
especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain
transactions or events; as, a register of deeds.

Register

Definition: That which registers or records.

Register

Definition: A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of
a machine or the rapidity of a process.

Register

Definition: The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records
automatically the message received.

Register

Definition: A machine for registering automatically the number of
persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.

Register

Definition: A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove,
etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an
arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of
a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated
air, or for regulating ventilation.

Register

Definition: The inner part of the mold in which types are cast.

Register

Definition: The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the
opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.

Register

Definition: The correspondence or adjustment of the several
impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in
chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings.
See Register, v. i. 2.

Register

Definition: The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified
portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a
given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano
register; the tenor register.

Register

Definition: A stop or set of pipes in an organ.

Register

Definition: To enter in a register; to record formally and
distinctly, as for future use or service.

Register

Definition: To enroll; to enter in a list.

Register

Definition: To enroll one's name in a register.

Register

Definition: To correspond in relative position; as, two pages,
columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same
line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in
chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed
consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary.