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reg·is·ter /ˈrɛʤəstɚ/
(vt.)登記,註冊,掛號;指示,記錄,自動記下;把掛號(vi.)登記,註冊登記,註冊 ; (指登記使用某軟體之意)
register
電子現金收銀機
register
暫存區; 暫存器
register
暫存器 註冊
Reg·is·ter n.
1. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own. --Shak.
2. Com. (a) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. (b) 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.
3. 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.
4. That which registers or records. Specifically: (a) Mech. A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process. (b) Teleg. The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. (c) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
5. 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.
6. Print. (a) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. (b) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. (c) 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.
7. Mus. (a) 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.
Note: ☞ In respect to the vocal tones, the thick register properly extends below from the F on the lower space of the treble staff. The thin register extends an octave above this. The small register is above the thin. The voice in the thick register is called the chest voice; in the thin, the head voice. Falsetto is a kind off voice, of a thin, shrull quality, made by using the mechanism of the upper thin register for tones below the proper limit on the scale.
(b) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
Parish register, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish.
Syn: -- List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See List.
Reg·is·ter, v. i.
1. To enroll one's name in a register.
2. Print. 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.
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Reg·is·ter v. t. [imp. & p. p. Registere p. pr. & vb. n. Registering.]
1. To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
2. To enroll; to enter in a list.
Such follow him as shall be registered. --Milton.
3. Securities To enter the name of the owner of (a share of stock, a bond, or other security) in a register, or record book. A registered security is transferable only on the written assignment of the owner of record and on surrender of his bond, stock certificate, or the like.
Registered letter, a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care.
register
n 1: an official written record of names or events or
transactions [syn: registry]
2: (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range
and manner of production of the human voice or of
different pipe organ stops or of different musical
instruments
3: a book in which names and transactions are listed
4: (computer science) memory device that is the part of
computer memory that has a specific address and that is
used to hold information of a specific kind
5: an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room)
for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
6: a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of
air into a furnace or other heating device
7: a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions;
used in shops to add up the bill [syn: cash register]
v 1: record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or
transactions
2: record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for
divorce"; "file a complaint" [syn: file]
3: enroll to vote; "register for an election"
4: be aware of; "Did you register any change when I pressed the
button?" [syn: record]
5: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The
thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The
gauge read `empty'" [syn: read, show, record]
6: have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties
[syn: cross-file]
7: show in one's face; "Her surprise did not register"
8: manipulate the registers of an organ
9: send by registered mail; "I'd like to register this letter"
10: enter into someone's consciousness; "Did this event register
in your parents' minds?"