Subscribe vs Registration - What's the difference?

As a verb subscribe

is (ergative) to sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

As a noun registration is

(uncountable) the act of signing up or registering for something.

English

Verb

(subscrib)

(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

Would you like to subscribe''' or '''subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?

To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.

To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.

I don’t subscribe to that theory.

To pay money to be a member of an organization.

To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.

1913:' Theodore Roosevelt, ''Autobiography'' — under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would '''subscribe''' to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would ' subscribe most heavily to beat me;

To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

Each man subscribed ten dollars.

(business, and, finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.

1776:' Adam Smith, ''The Wealth of Nations'' — The capital which had been ' subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.

To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.

Parties subscribe''' a covenant or contract; a man '''subscribes a bond.

Officers subscribe''' their official acts, and secretaries and clerks '''subscribe copies or records.

* Milman

All the bishops subscribed the sentence.

(archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).

* Sir Thomas More

[They] subscribed their names under them.

(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.

(obsolete) To declare over one's signature; to publish.

* Shakespeare

I will subscribe him a coward.

Derived terms

* subscribable * subscriber * subscript * subscription

registration

English

Noun

(uncountable) the act of signing up or registering for something

''Complete the registration process

(countable) that which registers or makes something official, e.g. the form or paper that registers

Did you submit your car registration yet?

(uncountable) alignment, e.g. of colors or other elements in a printing process

(uncountable) the location where guests register, especially with a hotel.

The elevators are just past registration .

(music) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.