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release
[ ri-lees ]
verb (used with object)
- to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go:
to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
Antonyms: bind
- to free from anything that restrains, fastens, etc.:
to release a catapult.
Synonyms: disengage, extricate, loose
Antonyms: fasten
- to allow to be known, issued, done, or exhibited:
to release an article for publication.
- Law. to give up, relinquish, or surrender (a right, claim, etc.).
noun
- a freeing or releasing from confinement, obligation, pain, emotional strain, etc.
Synonyms: emancipation, deliverance, liberation
- liberation from anything that restrains or fastens.
- some device or agency for effecting such liberation.
- a grant of permission, as to publish, use, or sell something.
- the releasing of something for publication, performance, use, exhibition, or sale.
- the film, book, record, etc., that is released.
- Law.
- the surrender of a right or the like to another.
- a document embodying such a surrender.
- Law Obsolete. a remission, as of a debt, tax, or tribute.
- Machinery.
- a control mechanism for starting or stopping a machine, especially by removing some restrictive apparatus.
- the opening of an exhaust port or valve at or near the working stroke of an engine so that the working fluid can be exhausted on the return stroke.
- the point in the stroke of an engine at which the exhaust port or valve is opened.
- (in jazz or popular music) a bridge.
release
/ rɪˈliːs /
verb
- to free (a person, animal, etc) from captivity or imprisonment
- to free (someone) from obligation or duty
- to free (something) from (one's grip); let go or fall
- to issue (a record, film, book, etc) for sale or circulation
- to make (news or information) known or allow (news or information) to be made known
to release details of an agreement
- law to relinquish (a right, claim, title, etc) in favour of someone else
- ethology to evoke (a response) through the presentation of a stimulus that produces the response innately
noun
- the act of freeing or state of being freed, as from captivity, imprisonment, duty, pain, life, etc
- the act of issuing for sale or publication
- something issued for sale or public showing, esp a film or a record
a new release from Bob Dylan
- a news item, document, etc, made available for publication, broadcasting, etc
- law the surrender of a claim, right, title, etc, in favour of someone else
- a control mechanism for starting or stopping an engine
- the opening of the exhaust valve of a steam engine near the end of the piston stroke
- the moment at which this valve opens
- the electronic control regulating how long a note sounds after a synthesizer key has been released
- the control mechanism for the shutter in a camera
Derived Forms
- reˈleaser, noun
Other Words From
- re·leasa·bili·ty noun
- re·leasa·ble re·leasi·ble adjective
- nonre·lease noun
- unre·leasa·ble adjective
- unre·leasi·ble adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of release1
Word History and Origins
Origin of release1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Rashad was there to celebrate the release of the Civil Rights drama Selma.
The United States government might not release that information for years, if ever.
On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.
The “nature of the crime” was too serious to release him, they said.
And so, he says he left prison without proper ID, just his release papers and the “dress-out gear” he was given by the state.
He has secured the release of certain Spanish prisoners, and is building two ships.
He had no rest until the seals were fixed to parchment, and the warrant of his release appeared in public print.
The strenuous efforts made by the Spaniards to secure their release are fully referred to in Chap.
The whole party was captured by the insurgents, who were afterwards ordered to release them all.
Now at the feast the governor was wont to release unto the multitude one prisoner, whom they would.
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