Students Registration or Students Sign Up?

[Pete Noire]

Are they equivalent or is there any difference between registration and sign up when using them in the context of a website database?

 

[tedmc]

Yes, they are synonymous. Sign-up, as a noun, is hyphenated.

 

[Pete Noire]

Many thanks tedmc ("Register" in this forum"). By the way, I have seen sign-up as a noun many times, but I was doubting since there is no such a word in any English dictionary. For instance: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sign-up or http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/american/sign-up?showCookiePolicy=true. It is always a verb. (???).

 

[Tdol]

It is used as a noun- it could be a recent coinage because of signing up on the internet, but I do see it there often enough.

 

[Rover_KE]

I have seen sign-up as a noun many times, but I was doubting since there is no such a word in any English dictionary.

It's listed as a noun in dictionaries 1, 3 and 4 here, Pete.

(Click on the underlined link and bookmark the site for future refernece.)

 

[MikeNewYork]

It won't be long before the hyphen disappears.

 

[emsr2d2]

I've seen "signup" plenty of times. It's no longer underlined by my spellchecker.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Thought so.

 

[Tdol]

I've seen it used without the hyphen in newspapers in recent weeks- it's become a topic in the election for leadership of a political party.