▪ I. registering, vbl. n.
(ˈrɛdʒɪstərɪŋ)
[f. register v. + -ing1.]
The action of recording, or entering in a book, etc.
| 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 59 Y⊇ registring of our tumultuous times & daungerous chaunces. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. viii. §5 The registering of doubts hath two excellent uses. 1653 Acts & Ordin. Parl. c. 6 (Scobell) 227 A Book of good Vellum or Parchment for the Registring of all such Marriages. 1712 Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 99 For the Registring of such Baptisms. 1825 Act 6 Geo. IV, c. 110 (title), An Act for the registering of British Vessels. |
b. techn. (See quots.)
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 258 The means by which the successive impressions..are to be brought exactly to join each other..; this is by printers called registering. 1852 Seidel Organ 111 By registering, we here understand, the mode in which the various registers of an organ are combined. |
▪ II. ˈregistering, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That registers.
| 1836 Act 6 & 7 Will. IV, c. 86 §31 Every such Registering Officer of the Quakers [etc.]. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola lxiii, A temporary post as an extra cancelliere or registering secretary under the Ten. 1877 Nature 13 Sept. 421/2 The metallic spiral must be placed very close to the registering apparatus. |