read vs register

read

noun
  • Something to be read; a written work. 

  • A person's interpretation or impression of something. 

  • A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data. 

  • The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string 

  • An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”). 

verb
  • To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.). 

  • To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection. 

  • To read work(s) written by (a named author). 

  • Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term. 

  • To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones. 

  • To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way. 

  • To consist of certain text. 

  • Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan 

  • To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object) 

  • To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. 

  • To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks. 

  • To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal). 

  • Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way. 

  • To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text. 

  • To recognise (someone) as being transgender. 

  • To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from. 

register

noun
  • An entry in such a book. 

  • A style of a language used in a particular context. 

  • A device that automatically records a quantity. 

  • The act of registering. 

  • An organ stop. 

  • One who registers or records; a registrar; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events. 

  • The inner part of the mould in which types are cast. 

  • A grille at the outflow of a ventilation duct, capable of being opened and closed to direct the air flow. 

  • A small unit of very fast memory that is directly accessible to the central processing unit, and is mostly used to store inputs, outputs, or intermediate results of computations. 

  • A list of received calls in a phone set. 

  • A formal recording of names, events, transactions, etc. 

  • A distinct horizontal (or, more rarely, vertical) section of a work of art or inscription that is divided into several such sections. 

  • A book of such entries. 

  • The range of a voice or instrument. 

  • The part of a telegraphic apparatus that automatically records the message received. 

  • A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title. 

  • The exact alignment of lines, margins, and colors. 

verb
  • To record, especially in writing. 

  • To sign-up, especially to vote. 

  • To make or adjust so as to be properly or precisely aligned. 

  • To voluntarily sign over for safe keeping, abandoning complete ownership for partial. 

  • To express outward signs. 

  • To buy the full version of trial software by providing one's details and payment. 

  • To make an impression. 

  • To enter in a register; to enlist. 

  • To record officially and handle specially. 

  • To place one's name, or have one's name placed in a register. 

  • To be in proper alignment; to align or correspond exactly. 

How often have the words read and register occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )