to register
- verb
- /ˈrɛdʒɪstər/
- I don't think she had time to register what happened.
- barely register
- fail to register
- register unhappiness
It triggers pain receptors in your brain and registers as actual danger.
- It triggers pain receptors in your brain and registers as actual danger.
- But more often than not, the emotion that is registering across your face.
- And I didn't, it didn't register to me when he first said it.
- Of course I'm showing him I want him, but that doesn't register in his mind.
- They hear you, but they don't really, it doesn't register.
- You can get that sugar hit all right, Your brain will register it.
- Lucy didn't register that what she was feeling in that situation was peaceful.
- So that's the, the initial thing is my brain didn't register because he didn't know there was any pain going on.
- His reason knows in Plato's terminology, but the other parts of his soul haven't registered what's going on.
- But somehow, when genocide is taking place, the shame of not acting sometimes doesn't quite register properly until afterwards.
- You can get better at registering sense of fullness or lack of fullness in a very particular way.
Examples
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I was so busy, that what was about to happen hadn't really registered yet.
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Kyosti did not move, did not even seem to register her presence in the room.
Fiction book (1990) -
I mean, I think you, you need, one needs to register that.
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I registered it based on what I remember.
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Have you somehow not registered what she is?
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You say no, just take a minute and let it register what's happened.
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Does your brain register that as a human voice that is communicating meaning?
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I think Allison had been screaming all day, but it hadn't really registered before.
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Roy heard buzzing in the cemetery, a sound that hadn't registered until just now.
Fiction book (1992) -
After hearing the shocking news, she finally registered the depth of her sadness.
Synonyms
To notice an emotion or a physical sensation in your body
To see or become aware of something
To see or hear someone and know who they are
To notice something by feeling or by using a tool
Antonyms
Compounds
A book or list where you record checks and deposits to track your bank account
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The lower part of the voice you feel vibrating in your chest when you speak or sing
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A small storage inside the computer's processor that keeps calculation results by adding new numbers to old ones
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A small storage inside the computer that changes an address to find data in memory
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A tone language that uses high or low voice pitch to show different word meanings
How Aware
Surface Forms
Etymology
Register comes from the Medieval Latin verb registrare, which means 'to write in a list'. When something 'registers' in your mind, it is like your brain 'writing down' the idea, so you notice or become aware of it.