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Release

noun

1.

Merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film).

2.

The act of liberating someone or something. Synonyms: freeing, liberation.

3.

A process that liberates or discharges something. "The release of iodine from the thyroid gland"

4.

An announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation. Synonyms: handout, press release.

5.

The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart). Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, sack, sacking.

6.

Euphemistic expressions for death. Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing.

7.

A legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation. Synonym: acquittance.

8.

A device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism. Synonym: button.

9.

Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion. Synonyms: outlet, vent. "He gave vent to his anger"

10.

The act of allowing a fluid to escape. Synonyms: spill, spillage.

11.

A formal written statement of relinquishment. Synonyms: discharge, waiver.

12.

(music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone. Synonym: tone ending.

verb

(past & past part. released; pres. part. releasing)

1.

Release, as from one's grip. Synonyms: let go, let go of, relinquish. "Relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall"

2.

Grant freedom to; free from confinement. Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, unloose, unloosen.

3.

Let (something) fall or spill from a container. Synonym: turn.

4.

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale. Synonyms: bring out, issue, publish, put out.

5.

Eliminate (a substance). Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, expel. "The plant releases a gas"

6.

Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids. Synonym: secrete. "Release a hormone into the blood stream"

7.

Make (information) available for publication. Synonym: free.

8.

Part with a possession or right. Synonyms: free, give up, relinquish, resign. "Resign a claim to the throne"

9.

Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition. Synonyms: free, liberate.

10.

Make (assets) available. Synonyms: free, unblock, unfreeze.

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"Release" Quotes from Famous Books

... Chiang Tzu-ya persuaded Yuean-shih T'ien-tsun to release from the Otherworld the spirits of the heroes who had died in battle, and when Chao Kung-ming was led into his presence he praised his bravery, deplored the circumstances of his death, and canonized him as President of the Ministry of ...

— Myths and Legends of China • E. T. C. Werner

... a chambre de garcon in Mr. Rushbrook's home for its exhibition. Her conception of the opposite characters of the two men was singularly distinct and real, and this momentary confusion of them was disagreeable to her woman's sense. But at this moment James came to release her and conduct her to Rushbrook's study, where he would join her at once. Everything had been arranged as ...

— A Sappho of Green Springs • Bret Harte

... consigned to a gentleman of Scotland, who died before it arrived; so that it still remained to be accounted for by his executors. He now presented the old man with fifty pounds for his present occasions, over and above bank notes for one hundred, which he had deposited for his brother's release. — He brought along with him a deed ready executed, by which he settled a perpetuity of four-score pounds upon his parents, to be inherited by their other two sons after their decease. — He promised ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... lilies white you bring In the joyous Easter morning, for hopes are blossoming, And as earth her shroud of snow from off her breast doth fling, So may we cast our fetters off in God's eternal Spring; So may we find release at last from sorrow and from pain, Soon may we find our childhood's calm, delicious dawn again. Sweet are your eyes, O little ones, that look with smiling grace, Without a shade of doubt or ...

— Graded Memory Selections • Various

... after his release went in the ship on to Bombay, from whence the Superintendent heard from Sir Robert McClure that John —— was as well behaved a man as he had on board, and that the treatment he had received in the Singapore jail had quite altered his nature, and he would like to know the prescription ...

— Prisoners Their Own Warders - A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits - Settlements Established 1825 • J. F. A. McNair

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