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registery

registery is the rare form of registry.

Meaning of registry

Noun

registry (countable and uncountable, plural registries)

  1. (countable) A building in which things are registered or where registers are kept.
  2. (countable) A record; an account; a register.
    • The best — and easiest — way to shop for the "perfect" gift is to consult the couple's wedding gift registry, since these are the items they want and need […]2002, Bride's Book of Etiquette (Revised), page 276
  3. (uncountable) The act of registering; registration.
    • Regulations may specify the minimum size of lot; the allowable closures for surveys; the types of corner marks to be used; the minimum width of streets, and the procedure for dedicating them; the rules for registry of plats; and other matters.1969, Russell C[harles] Brinker, “Boundary Surveys”, in Elementary Surveying (International Textbooks in Civil Engineering), 5th edition, Scranton, Pa.: International Textbook Company, →ISBN, page 409
  4. (countable) A database of configuration settings etc. maintained by the Microsoft Windows operating system.
    • To unregister a DLL and remove the corresponding entries from the registry, add the /u switch to the command […]1999, John Papa, C. Caison, Matt Brown, Professional ADO RDS programming with ASP, page 252

Forms of registery

pluralregisteries

Questions about registery

What is registery the rare form of?
Registery is the rare form of registry.

Words near registery in the dictionary

  1. registeries
  2. registering
  3. registers
  4. registership
  5. registerships
  6. registery
  7. registrability
  8. registrable
  9. registral
  10. registrant
  11. registrants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: registery (page history and authors); registry (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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