to register
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3.4
- verb
- /ˈrɛdʒɪstər/
- I don't think she had time to register what happened.
- barely register
- fail to register
- register unhappiness
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Watch on YouTubeIt 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
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To notice an emotion or a physical sensation in your body
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To see or become aware of something
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1.4
To see or hear someone and know who they are
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4.2
To notice something by feeling or by using a tool
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.5
A book or list where you record checks and deposits to track your bank account
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1
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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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7.0
A small storage inside the computer that changes an address to find data in memory
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9.9
A tone language that uses high or low voice pitch to show different word meanings
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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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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.