to register
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8.7
- verb
- /ˈrɛdʒɪstər/
- Specialized
:
registrar
- To create a beautiful melody, the composer carefully registered each pipe in the organ for optimal harmony.
Examples
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As the organist played, she expertly registered the different tones to enhance the church's ambiance.
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Experts say unconsciousness occurs before pain has time to register.
Fiction book (2000) -
Claude pulled out the S-roll to register the homophony before it would be forgotten.
Fiction book (1992) -
We must teach students to deal with musical realities such as rubato, phrasing, arpeggiated harmonies, metrical ambiguity, timbre, and register, to name a few.
Academic text (2006) -
We scan the drawing page with a flatbed scanner, locate fiducials included in the corners of the page, and then use the fiducials to register the traced lines with the 3D model rendered from the main viewpoint.
Academic text (2012) -
The musician learned how to register different sounds on the organ by adjusting the stops.
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
Register comes from the Medieval Latin verb registrare, which means 'to write in a list'. To 'register' an organ is to choose which sets of pipes or sounds to use, like picking items from a list to make a certain tone.