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  • Register and contour tones, a linguistics term for tones distinguished by relative pitch
  • Register (sociolinguistics)
    Register (sociolinguistics)
    In linguistics, a register is a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. For example, an English speaker may adhere more closely to prescribed grammar, pronounce words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal In linguistics, a...

    , a form of a language used for a particular purpose or social setting
  • Register (phonology)
    Register (phonology)
    In linguistics, a register language, also known as a pitch-register language, is a language which combines tone and vowel phonation into a single phonological system. Burmese and the Chinese dialect Shanghainese are examples...

    , a language that combines tone with phonation

  • Hardware register
    Hardware register
    In digital electronics, especially computing, a hardware register stores bits of information, in a way that all the bits can be written to or read out simultaneously.The hardware registers inside a central processing unit are called processor registers....

    , a placeholder for information about some hardware condition
  • Processor register
    Processor register
    In computer architecture, a processor register is a small amount of storage available on the CPU whose contents can be accessed more quickly than storage available elsewhere. Most, but not all, modern computers adopt the so-called load-store architecture...

    , a component inside a CPU for storing information

  • The Register
    The Register
    The Register is a British technology news and opinion website. It was founded by John Lettice and Mike Magee in 1994 as a newsletter called "Chip Connection", initially as an email service...

    , a technology news website
  • The Register was South Australia's first newspaper.
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Linguistics

  • Register and contour tones, a linguistics term for tones distinguished by relative pitch
  • Register (sociolinguistics)
    Register (sociolinguistics)
    In linguistics, a register is a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting. For example, an English speaker may adhere more closely to prescribed grammar, pronounce words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal In linguistics, a...

    , a form of a language used for a particular purpose or social setting
  • Register (phonology)
    Register (phonology)
    In linguistics, a register language, also known as a pitch-register language, is a language which combines tone and vowel phonation into a single phonological system. Burmese and the Chinese dialect Shanghainese are examples...

    , a language that combines tone with phonation

Computing

  • Hardware register
    Hardware register
    In digital electronics, especially computing, a hardware register stores bits of information, in a way that all the bits can be written to or read out simultaneously.The hardware registers inside a central processing unit are called processor registers....

    , a placeholder for information about some hardware condition
  • Processor register
    Processor register
    In computer architecture, a processor register is a small amount of storage available on the CPU whose contents can be accessed more quickly than storage available elsewhere. Most, but not all, modern computers adopt the so-called load-store architecture...

    , a component inside a CPU for storing information

Publications

  • The Register
    The Register
    The Register is a British technology news and opinion website. It was founded by John Lettice and Mike Magee in 1994 as a newsletter called "Chip Connection", initially as an email service...

    , a technology news website
  • The Register was South Australia's first newspaper. The first issue was printed in London in June 1836, and a year later the second issue was printed in a rush hut in Hindley Street in what is now called Register Place.
  • The Des Moines Register, a newspaper in Des Moines, Iowa
  • New Haven Register, a newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut
  • The Orange County Register
    The Orange County Register
    The Orange County Register is a daily newspaper published in Santa Ana, California. The Register has the third largest paid daily circulation in California, behind only the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. The Register is the flagship publication of Freedom Communications, Inc., which...

    , a newspaper in Santa Ana, California
  • Sheffield Register, a defunct newspaper in Sheffield, South Yorkshire
  • The Federal Register
    Federal Register
    The Federal Register , abbreviated FR, or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains most routine publications and public notices of government agencies...

    , a publication of the US Government

People

  • John Register
    John Register
    John Register was American realist painter. Born in New York City, Register was educated at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, before graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, with B.A. in Literature, in 1961...

     (1936-1996), a contemporary American painter
  • Paul J. Register
    Paul J. Register
    Paul J. Register was a United States Navy officer killed in action during the attack on Pearl Harbor for whom two U.S. Navy ships were named.-Biography:Paul James Register was born in Bismarck, North Dakota on 5 November 1899...

     (1899-1941), a United States Navy officer and namesake of more than one United States Navy ship

Other uses

  • Regesta
    Regesta
    Papal regesta are the copies, generally entered in special registry volumes, of the papal letters and official documents that are kept in the papal archives...

    , a record of assets in ancient Rome, the word from which English register came
  • Register (music)
    Register (music)
    In music, a register is the relative "height" or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument or group of instruments...

    , the relative "height" or range of a note, melody, part, instrument, etc
  • Register (sculpture)
    Register (sculpture)
    Register is a term that refers to pictographic representation of a scene, and its separation from an adjoining scene by putting the scene in regestered sections. This term can be applied in sculpture, or ancient artwork, or languages...

    , the separation of multiple pictographic scenes from each other
  • Register (photography)
    Flange focal distance
    The flange focal distance of a lens mount for an interchangeable lens camera system is one of its most fundamental attributes...

    , attribute of a lens mount system
  • Register signaling
    Register signaling
    In telecommunications, register signaling is concerned with conveying addressing information, such as the calling and/or called telephone number.This is to be contrasted with line signaling....

    , which communicates the calling and/or called telephone number across a telephone line
  • Cash register
    Cash register
    A cash register is a mechanical or electronic device for calculating and recording sales transactions, and an attached cash drawer for storing cash. The cash register also usually prints a receipt for the customer....

    , a device for recording retail transactions and storing money
  • Register of ships, for example Lloyd's Register
    Lloyd's Register
    The Lloyd's Register Group is a maritime classification society and independent risk management organisation providing risk assessment and mitigation services and management systems certification. Historically, as Lloyd's Register of Shipping, it was a specifically maritime organisation...

  • In intravenous medical use
    Intravenous therapy
    Intravenous therapy or IV therapy is the giving of liquid substances directly into a vein. It can be intermittent or continuous; continuous administration is called an intravenous drip. The word intravenous simply means "within a vein", but is most commonly used to refer to IV therapy...

    , to register means to pull blood back into the syringe barrel to find, or show that the needle is in, a vein. Registering is also called flagging and blood so seen is called a 'flag' of blood or blood flag.
  • Family register
    Family register
    A family register is a registry used in many countries to track information of a genealogical or legal interest....

    , a registry used in many countries to track information of a genealogical or legal interest.