registry

English

Noun

registry (plural registries)

1. A building in which things are registered or where registers are kept.
2. A record; an account; a register.
   • 2002, Bride's Book of Etiquette (Revised) (page 276)

     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 […]

3. The act of registering; registration.
4. (computing) A database of configuration settings etc. maintained by the Microsoft Windows operating system.
   • 1999, John Papa, ‎C. Caison, ‎Matt Brown, Professional ADO RDS programming with ASP (page 252)

     To unregister a DLL and remove the corresponding entries from the registry, add the /u switch to the command […]

Related terms

• register
• registrar

Translations

building

• Finnish: rekisteri (fi)
• German: Registratur (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: tabularium n
• Russian: регистрату́ра (ru) f (registratúra), канцеля́рия (ru) f (kanceljárija)

register

• Finnish: rekisteri (fi)
• German: Register (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: рее́стр (ru) m (rejéstr), реги́стр (ru) m (regístr)

registration

• Finnish: rekisteröinti (fi), rekisteröityminen
• French: enregistrement (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Registrierung (de) f
• Russian: регистра́ция (ru) f (registrácija), регистри́рование (ru) n (registrírovanije), реги́стр (ru) m (regístr)

database

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 註冊表／注册表 (zhùcèbiǎo), 注册表 (zhùcèbiǎo)

• Finnish: rekisteri (fi)
• French: registre (fr) m, base de registre f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Register (de) n
• Japanese: レジストリ (rejisutori)
• Russian: рее́стр (ru) m (rejéstr)

Anagrams

• Gerritys