The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration. [1913 Webster]
The place where a register is kept. [1913 Webster]
A record; an account; a register. Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

registry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a place or office where registers or records are kept.
2 registration.

Idiom

registry office = register office.

Etymology

obs. registery f. med.L registerium (as REGISTER)

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THESAURUS

registry

account, account book, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, active list, adversaria, aide-memoire, annals, annotation, archives, balance sheet, bank ledger, bankbook, blacklist, booking, books, card ledger, cashbook, catalog, cataloging, chancery, check sheet, checklist, chronicle, chronicling, chronology, civil list, clock card, correspondence, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, date slip, datebook, daybook, diary, docket, documentation, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, enumeration, factory ledger, files, filing, footnote, history, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventory, inventorying, item, itemization, items, jotting, journal, ledger, letters, list, listing, log, logbook, logging, marginal note, marginalia, matriculation, memo, memoir, memorandum, memorial, minutes, notation, note, passbook, pipe roll, posting, purchase ledger, record, record book, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, register office, registration, relic, remains, reminder, repertory, retired list, roll, rolls, roster, rota, sales journal, sales ledger, schedule, scholia, scholium, scroll, sick list, stock ledger, stores ledger, suspense ledger, table, tabulation, tally, tally sheet, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable, token, trace, vestige

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ROGET THESAURUS

registry

Chronometry

N chronometry, horometry, horology, date, epoch, style, era, almanac, calendar, ephemeris, register, registry, chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram, clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio, watch, wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch, atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock, chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph, repeater, timekeeper, timepiece, dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra, ghurry, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper, annalist, calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year, chronological, chronometrical, chronogrammatical, cinquecento, quattrocento, trecento, o'clock.

Record

N record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time, record, trace, vestige, relic, remains, scar, cicatrix, footstep, footmark, footprint, pug, track mark, wake, trail, scent, piste, monument, hatchment, slab, tablet, trophy, achievement, obelisk, pillar, column, monolith, memorial, memento, testimonial, medal, commemoration, record, note, minute, register, registry, roll, cartulary, diptych, Domesday book, catalogue raisonne, entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket, notch, muniment, deed, document, deposition, proces verbal, affidavit, certificate, notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book, portfolio, pigeonholes, excerpta, adversaria, jottings, dottings, gazette, gazetteer, newspaper, daily, magazine, almanac, almanack, calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger, cashbook, petty cashbook, professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article, archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book, statistics, compte rendu, Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of, Hansard's Debates, chronicle, annals, legend, history, biography, Congressional Records, registration, registry, enrollment, inrollment, tabulation, entry, booking, signature, recorder, journalism, recording, tape recording, videotape, compact disk, floppy disk, diskette, hard disk, Winchester disk, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, on record, exegi monumentum aere perennium, read their history in a nation's eyes, records that defy the tooth of time.

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