What does register mean?

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[n] an official written record of names or events or transactions[v] record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions[n] (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 di

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register - The Free Dictionary

[n] an official written record of names or events or transactions

[v] record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions

[n] (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

[v] record in a public office or in a court of law
(file for divorce file a complaint)

[n] a book in which names and transactions are listed

[v] enroll to vote
(register for an election)

[n] (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

[v] be aware of
(Did you register any change when I pressed the button?)

[n] an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room

[v] indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
(The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero The gauge read `empty')

[n] a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device

[v] have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties

[n] a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill

[v] show in one's face
(Her surprise did not register)

[v] manipulate the registers of an organ

[v] send by registered mail
(I'd like to register this letter)

[v] enter into someone's consciousness
(Did this event register in your parents' minds?)

Other vocabulary

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.