The Collaborative International Dictionary
Registering \Reg"is*ter*ing\, a. Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
Register \Reg"is*ter\ (r[e^]j"[i^]s*t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Registere (-t?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Registering.] [Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See Register, n.]
To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.
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To enroll; to enter in a list.
Such follow him as shall be registered.
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(Securities) To enter the name of the owner of (a share of stock, a bond, or other security) in a register, or record book. A registered security is transferable only on the written assignment of the owner of record and on surrender of his bond, stock certificate, or the like.
Registered letter, a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of register English)
Usage examples of "registering".
He was casting nervous, absent-minded glances out the windows of the motoscafo, as if the strangeness of the city compelled him to look at it, though nothing of it was registering.
Cloak of this complexity prevei her from any more than barely registering the sounds of voices of boot heels on the deck above.
I sensed him prowling about outside the cabin, taking up the scents of the place, registering bear, over and over.
The government rushed for a weather recomputation, but while they were doing that you were registering your holdings on Earth and remortgaging them in FOE money.
Avis stood in the doorway, the maid just behind her, both faces registering shock.
Ancient trunks and knotted vines, giant ferns and stippled foliage, the languid monotone of botanical patterning interrupted, at precisely the proper moment, by a sudden caesura in the greenery, bright orchids dazzling as summer clouds, flavored cups of epiphytic ice protruding from their beds of root growth thick as pubic hair up in the crotches of the stilted mangrove trees, or the swoop of incandescent plumage as a blue-throated flycatcher sailed out into the open river space and vanished, the eye barely registering its passage.
Behind them was a table with a vertical centerboard studded with instruments registering their measurements and recording devices vomiting paper trails, all inside a wicker enclosure.
Jack had always thought Gordon was more machine than man, and he imagined that computerlike brain registering the passing scenery like of data: HILL, OVERPASS, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.
While Condy was registering for himself and Blix, they managed to exchange a lightning glance.
The joggling camera registering the walking legs of a man and the two heavy, black, flame-scarred boxes he carried, one on either side of him.
Transfer data to her, directly, at the speed of his thought, registering the accumulated knowledge of Nathan Brazil on the operation of The Well of Souls, the Markovian physics, the experimental histories, everything about the Markovian society, project, and goals.
He visualized the meter on the Olympiad booths registering an incredible score.
He glanced around quickly, registering a sawpit and stacks of tree trunks and cut planks.
Blake put a telelens on the viewer and took shots of all within registering distance.
Oliver smiled and said nothing, and Beatrice murmured politely, registering a vow that, given the chance, she would take good care that he saw as little as possible other at the dinner.