Main entry: cash register, register
Definition: a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill
Main entry: register
Definition: a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device
Main entry: register
Definition: an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room
Main entry: register
Definition: (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
Main entry: register
Definition: (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
Main entry: register, registry
Definition: an official written record of names or events or transactions
Main entry: register
Definition: a book in which names and transactions are listed
Main entry: register
Definition: enter into someone's consciousness
Usage: Did this event register in your parents' minds?
Main entry: show, record, register, read
Definition: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
Usage: The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero; The gauge read `empty'
Definition: record in a public office or in a court of law
Usage: file for divorce; file a complaint
Main entry: register
Definition: send by registered mail
Usage: I'd like to register this letter
Main entry: register
Definition: manipulate the registers of an organ
Definition: be aware of
Usage: Did you register any change when I pressed the button?
Main entry: register
Definition: show in one's face
Usage: Her surprise did not register
Main entry: register
Definition: enroll to vote
Usage: register for an election
Main entry: register
Definition: record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions
Main entry: register, cross-file
Definition: have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties