caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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(noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
regicide | (noun) the act of killing a king | - |
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(noun) someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king | - |
regime | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regimen |
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(noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, government |
regimen | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regime |
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regiment | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, which can be divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions. | - |
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regimentals | (noun) the military uniform and insignia of a regiment | - |
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regimentation | (noun) the imposition of order or discipline | - |
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region | (noun) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | Synonyms: area |
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(noun) a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about | Synonyms: realm |
(noun) the extended spatial location of something | Synonyms: part |
(noun) a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth | - |
(noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: neighborhood |
regionalism | (noun) loyalty to the interests of a particular region | - |
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(noun) a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region | - |
(noun) a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas | - |
regionality | (noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district. | - |
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(noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region. | - |
register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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(noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
(noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
(noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
(noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
(noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
(noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
registrant | (noun) a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby) | - |
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registrar | (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, recorder |
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(noun) the administrator responsible for student records | - |
(noun) a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company | - |
registration | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, enrolment |
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(noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, readjustment |
(noun) (music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops | - |
(noun) a document certifying an act of registering | - |
(noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: enrollment |
registry | (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: register |
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