Registry \Reg"is*try\ (r?j"?s*tr?), n.
   1. The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment;
      registration.
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   2. The place where a register is kept.
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   3. A record; an account; a register. --Sir W. Temple.
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	registry
     n : an official written record of names or events or
         transactions [syn: register]

	

	123 Moby Thesaurus words for "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

	

	REGISTRY. A book authorized by law, in which writings are registered or 
recorded. Vide To Record; Register.