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I have seen a great many landladies who looked so severe on seeing a window open in a room where the register was also open, that the unhappy boarder felt at once like a culprit for even desiring both warmth and fresh air at the same time.

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  1. noun A formal or official recording of items, names, or actions.
  2. noun A book for such entries.
  3. noun An entry in such a record.
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  • There in the register was the evidence of the marriage of Dai "work of national importance" Jones and Gladys "shop assistant" Lewis in 1943, and the minister told me for good measure that Evan Williams, son of the minister who had solemnised the marriage, was alive and well and living in Penrhyn, just outside the city. —  EQMM, June 2005
  • The danger is what happens to this data afterwards, especially as the register is a public document. —  Peter Black AM
  • A domain expired name register is a powerful tool that helps you in searching for the most meaningful expired domain names. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • In this respect in the coming years information accumulation mechanisms will be improved in order to ensure that the information in the register is always accurate and up to date. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • By the register was a big display of Scott Stapp's new double-CD solo album. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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file ·  address ·  document ·  record ·  module ·  input ·  access ·  card ·  processor ·  chart ·  database ·  controller

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register:   registers ·  registering ·  registered
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  1. Middle English registre, from Old French, from Medieval Latin registrum, alteration of Late Latin regesta, from Latin, neuter pl. past participle of regerere, to record : re-, re- + gerere, to carry.

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  1. from Middle English regester (=D. G. Swedish Danish register), from Old French registre, French registre, a record, register, =Provencal registre =Spanish registro =Portuguese registro, registo, resisto =Italian registro, a register, record, from Middle Latin registrum, also registra, register, a register, an altered form of regestum, a book in which things are recorded, a register, orig. plural, Latin regesta, things recorded, records, neuter plural of regestus, past participle of regerere, record: see reget, n. and v. In the later senses 6–10, from the verb, and in part practically identical, as ‘that which registers,’ with register, ‘one who registers’: see register.
  2. from F, registrer =Provencal Spanish Portuguese registrar =Italian registrare, from Middle Latin registrare, register; from the noun: see register, n.
  3. An altered form, due to confusion with register, of registrer, now usually written registrar: see registrar.
 

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