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inregister

inregister is the obsolete spelling of enregister.

Meaning of enregister

Verb

enregister (third-person singular simple present enregisters, present participle enregistering, simple past and past participle enregistered)

  1. (transitive) To record on a register.
    Synonyms:
    inregister
  2. (transitive) To store in a register of the CPU.
    • Enregistering a value during compilation of a program may improve runtime performance.
  3. (transitive) To become a register ("a style of a language used in a particular context").
    • Thus, by systematically labelling Singlish as 'broken English', official discourses enregister Singlish as a low-proficiency version of English and a hindrance to the nation's path toward globalisation.2022 January 13, Tong King Lee, “Spiaking Singlish: The politics of ludic English in Singapore”, in Language in Society, volume 52, number 2, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press...

Forms of inregister

third-person singular presentinregisters
present participleinregistering
past participleinregistered
pastinregistered

Origin of inregister

From in- + register.

Questions about inregister

What is inregister the obsolete spelling of?
Inregister is the obsolete spelling of enregister.

Words near inregister in the dictionary

  1. inrailed
  2. inrailing
  3. inrails
  4. inraptured
  5. inreconcilable
  6. inregister
  7. inregistered
  8. inregistering
  9. inregisters
  10. INRIA
  11. inrich

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inregister (page history and authors); enregister (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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