Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of registering; registration.
- n. The registered nationality of a ship.
- n. A place for registering.
- n. A book for official records.
- n. The place where such records are kept.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of recording or writing in a register, or depositing in the place of public record: as, the registry of a deed; the registry of a will, etc.
- n. The place where a register is kept.
- n. A series of facts recorded; a record.
Wiktionary
- n. A building in which things are registered or where registers are kept.
- n. A record; an account; a register.
- n. The act of registering; registration
- n. computing A database of configurations etc. maintained by the Microsoft Windows operating system.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.
- n. The place where a register is kept.
- n. A record; an account; a register.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an official written record of names or events or transactions
Examples
“Before the establishment of the ULC and, eventually, a name registry that, in 2006, listed more than five thousand bona fide Rollergirl names, newbies from other cities often chose names for themselves that were similar, or in some cases, identical, to existing Rollergirls.”
“With that many planes entering the system our security, our TSA, our FAA are going to be strapped to the limit and we really have to invest in some sort of a security system, probably a citizenship based and a background check based, as well as what you call a registry number on your airplane.”
“With offices in a converted colonial house on Long Island, the nonprofit registry is a modest affair — just three employees and Hil, who volunteers about 10 hours a week.”
“Like that in our Queller Family catalog last year, the current registry is abbreviated to include only the basic ownership information.”
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“The Windows registry is a treasure trove of tweak-friendly variables and values.”
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“The registry is underused by employers and there are no alternatives to the articling requirement such as additional course work.”
“According to the study's authors, all Norwegian women between the ages of 50 and 69 years have been asked to participate in screening mammography since 2005; 77 percent have done so; Norway's nationwide cancer registry is nearly 100 percent complete.”
“In addition to consolidating system settings, storing all of these settings in a single place and in a database format means that accessing values in the registry is much faster than parsing a text configuration file — so the registry can be used for more than just settings.”
What’s The Registry, Should I Clean It, And What’s The Point? | Lifehacker Australia
“In fact, most or all of the registry is read into memory each time the system boots, so accessing the registry is nearly instant.”
What’s The Registry, Should I Clean It, And What’s The Point? | Lifehacker Australia
“Several years ago I had a domain controller computer at work that had a corrupted registry from a hard drive crash, it would boot into safe mode but not normally.”
What’s The Registry, Should I Clean It, And What’s The Point? | Lifehacker Australia
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