enregister

Meanings

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

present singular third person enregisters · participle present enregistering · participle past enregistered · past enregistered · alternative obsolete inregister

transitiveTo record on a register.
Synonyms: inregister
transitivecomputingTo store in a register of the CPU.
Enregistering a value during compilation of a program may improve runtime performance.
transitivehuman sciencesTo 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, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 249

verbTo record on a register.

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