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The drawer that decides whether you're a customer or a suspect.
means To register is to formally record or enroll something in an official list; as a noun, it's that record itself, a range (of voice, of style), or the machine that tallies sales.
from From Latin 'regesta,' meaning 'things recorded,' from 'regerere' — to carry back, to bring together — built from 're-' (back) and 'gerere' (to carry, to bear). The word entered English through Old French 'registre' in the late Middle Ages, naming the bound book where names and dealings were written down. The 'cash register' sense is a much later twist, when the recording-book became a recording-machine.
- first patent
- James Ritty's 1879 'Incorruptible Cashier' stopped bartenders stealing
- ka-ching
- Bell added so owners could hear every sale
- music meaning
- Singers shift registers; the range your voice occupies
- computing
- Fastest memory exists, tiny slots inside the CPU
- linguistics
- Register also means how formal your speech is
wedding ring exchange — legal ceremony where two people officially become married in most countries
voter registration — process in the us and many democracies where citizens enroll to participate in elections
domain name registration — purchasing and recording a website address like google.com through icann-accredited registrars