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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



... the man, and whining softly, he was scanning the faces of his two deities with troubled eagerness. Evidently, he considered that Lady had been locked in by mistake; and he was pleading for her release. As these humans did not seem to catch the idea his eyes and expression conveyed, he trotted a few steps toward the tool-house and then paused to look invitingly ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune

... her hand, moving to them and looking at them quizzically—indignantly to DEVENISH). I say, you know, that's not fair. It's all very well to take your defeat like a man, but you mustn't overdo it. (They release their hands.) Mrs. Tremayne, I claim the ...
— Belinda • A. A. Milne

... life these men are true. And shouldst thou find them otherwise, O king, Then let them perish both, and cast me forth, That on some rock-girt island's dreary shore I may atone my folly. Are they true, And is this man indeed my dear Orestes, My brother, long implor'd,—release us both, And o'er us stretch the kind protecting arm, Which long hath shelter'd me. My noble sire Fell through his consort's guilt,—she by her son; On him alone the hope of Atreus' race Doth now repose. Oh, with pure heart and hands Let me ...
— Iphigenia in Tauris • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... received in one kind only. This confession they also wish to extort from us. Eckius says he contends for this point, merely because the people cannot be retained in the discharge of duty, unless we also release their consciences in regard to the sacrament (that is, unless the reformers would admit, that its reception in one kind was also allowable). We therefore desire to know your judgment on the case. As to the application of masses, ...
— American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics • Samuel Simon Schmucker

... to speak of the day of release. For him that would soon come. He knew that every word must cut his comrade to the heart, for poor Wolf had still to endure long years of martyrdom in prison; but he could not help it. He could not ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein


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