register
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6.5
- noun
- /ˈrɛdʒɪstər/
- Specialized
:
registro
- A lot of them kind of use a really soft high, high register, but he has such a strong high register to his voice that it's really different.
- instrument register
- lower register
- upper register
Examples
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The ceremony, the celebration, it is all happening in registers too high or too low.
Fiction book (1994) -
But the writer's voice is in the right register, not pointing to itself but to the material.
Academic text (1991) -
So if the happy register goes up, the sad one has to come down.
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- Not even in the highest registers?
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Not more than fifteen seconds later, the high-register instruments and the choir enter.
Academic text (2000) -
The fall released a plangent minor chord in the upper register of the instrument.
Fiction book (1992) -
On the downbeat, high- and low-register instruments fade out over approximately five seconds.
Academic text (2000) -
On the downbeat, the high-register instruments fade out over approximately five seconds.
Academic text (2000) -
Although high-register instruments predominate, middle-register instruments do not fade out completely.
Academic text (2000) -
The singer's voice has a beautiful quality in the high register, making it especially captivating.
Compounds
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3.5
A book or list where you record checks and deposits to track your bank account
- Specialized
The lower part of the voice you feel vibrating in your chest when you speak or sing
- Specialized
A small storage inside the computer's processor that keeps calculation results by adding new numbers to old ones
- Specialized
A small storage inside the computer that changes an address to find data in memory
- Specialized
A tone language that uses high or low voice pitch to show different word meanings
How High
Surface Forms
Etymology
Register comes from the Medieval Latin word registrum, which means 'a written list'. In music it came to mean a particular group or range of sounds, like a listed set of pipes or notes, so a register is a range with its own sound.