a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate |
an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices |
a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers |
(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 | thin layers of rock used for roofing |
(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 | |
an official written record of names or events or transactions | |
a book in which names and transactions are listed | |