0 present participle of register
1 to put information, especially your name, into an official list or record:
2 to record, show, or express something:
The Geiger counter registered a dangerous level of radioactivity.
The earthquake was too small to register on the Richter scale.
formal His face registered extreme disapproval of what he had witnessed.
3 If something registers, someone realizes it and if someone registers something, they realize it:
4 If you register a letter or parcel, you send it using a special postal service, so that it will be dealt with in a special way and not be lost:
a registered letter
They always register their ships under a flag of convenience.
Ships were registered abroad to circumvent employment and safety regulations.
Increasingly, the unmarried father of a child in Europe registers his paternity at the baby's birth.
Customers who register on-line will receive a ten percent discount.
There were few restrictions on partisan activity and the registering of new candidates, reflecting the domination of small regional parties.
Similarly, trust in political institutions has been registering a consistently high percentage.
An open system model allows programs to leave and join, while registering ports allows a connecting program locate specific resources.
