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- noun Plural form of
register . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
register .
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Examples
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The fact would seem to be that comparisons between the registers of the child and the adult voice are misleading, since the adult voice has fixed points of change in the vocal mechanism, which can be transcended only with great difficulty, while the child-voice has _no fixed points of change in its vocal registers_.
The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard
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Staring at her seemingly oblivious husband across their breakfast table, her expression registers cold dismay.
Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009
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He also promised an All-Ovi-iPod Night if Ovechkin registers any five-goal performances, but there are already plenty of hockey touches.
The Caps, DJ Stretch and Verizon Center's warmup music Dan Steinberg 2010
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By restricted I mean that the usage I should of known is restricted to certain registers, whereas I should have known is less so.
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That some mistakes have been made with some analogous real things (such as to allow pin registers, for example) does not mean the same mistakes should be made because we think cyberspace (or, actually, law enforcement) needsit.
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Their brain registers the same response that a fully-functioning person gets when they recognize a logically sound proposition.
Think Progress » Justice Department Intervenes In Gay Rights Suit For The First Time In A Decade 2010
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Cases were identified by registers from the North Thames region of England before and after the MMR vaccine was introduced into the United Kingdom in 1988.
Hot Topics: Autism 2008
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What Faflak does by taking it up in both these registers is to emphasize its socially disruptive potential, but to give that disruptiveness a long-term cognitive weight by developing mesmerism towards its future in psychoanalysis.
Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)' 2008
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My synthskin registers the contact with unstable biomaterial and sterilizes my left arm. “You have serious problems, †I say. “Now, what do you think? †“That you†™ re no fun, Meggie. †Jay is chuckling as he builds a grotesque little snowman out of human flesh and liquefied innards. “About the body. †“Oh. †He draws a little smile with his index finger. “Normal.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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My synthskin registers the contact with unstable biomaterial and sterilizes my left arm. “You have serious problems, †I say. “Now, what do you think? †“That you†™ re no fun, Meggie. †Jay is chuckling as he builds a grotesque little snowman out of human flesh and liquefied innards. “About the body. †“Oh. †He draws a little smile with his index finger. “Normal.
365 tomorrows » Sundown : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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