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# register

noun (a register, registers); verb (register, registers, registered, registering)

«register» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A register is an official list of names or things, like the list a teacher uses to check who is at school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#m1)
2. To register is to put your name on an official list, for example for a club or to vote. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#m2)
3. A cash register is the machine in a shop that holds the money and adds up prices. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#m3)
4. To register can also mean to notice or understand something, or for a machine to show a number. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#m4)
5. In music and language, a register is how high or low a voice goes, or how formal the words are. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#m5)

### In the lessons

At school in the UK, Ireland and Australia, the teacher «takes the register» or «calls the register» each morning; in the USA people say «take attendance». In shops, the cash register adds up prices. In science, an instrument «registers» a reading. Phrases: «take the register», «cash register», «register for», «it didn't register».

### Examples

- The teacher took the register at nine o'clock. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#x1)
- Mum registered me for swimming lessons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#x2)
- The cashier put the money in the register. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#x3)
- You must register a new car with the government. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#x4)
- The thermometer registered thirty degrees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#x5)
- My name did not register in her mind at first. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#x6)
- The bad news took a while to register. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#x7)
- Every dog must be registered with the council. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/#x8)

### Note

Countable noun. Past form: registered. «Take the register» is British and Commonwealth; Americans say «take attendance» or «take roll». «It didn't register» means you did not notice or understand it. Spelling: register, not «registar».

## In Jewish tradition

It means an official list of names, such as the list of the people in a city or of priestly families.

**Interpretation.** In Ezra, men who could not prove their priestly descent were barred from the priesthood. The tradition reads this as showing how seriously birth records were kept.

### Examples

- The LORD shall count in the register of the peoples: 'This one was born there.' Selah (Writings PSA.87.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/register/#x1)
- These sought their register, that is, the genealogy, but it was not found; therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood. (Writings EZR.2.62, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/register/#x2)

### Note

Countable noun. Past form: registered. «Take the register» is British and Commonwealth; Americans say «take attendance» or «take roll». «It didn't register» means you did not notice or understand it. Spelling: register, not «registar».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «register» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/register/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«register» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/register.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «register» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/register/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«register» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/register.html) on Mova free.