registering

5 definitions • 9 examples

present participle of

to put information, especially your name, into an official list or record:

I registered the car in my name.

Within two weeks of arrival all foreigners had to register with the local police.

Students have to register for the new course by the end of April.

to record, show, or express something:

The Geiger counter registered a dangerous level of radioactivity.

The earthquake was too small to register on the Richter scale.

formal His face registered extreme disapproval of what he had witnessed.

If something registers, someone realizes it and if someone registers something, they realize it:

I did mention the address but I'm not sure that it registered (with him).

I scarcely registered the fact that he was there.

If you register a letter or parcel, you send it using a special postal service, so that it will be dealt with in a special way and not be lost:

a registered letter