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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

... was with object of diverting attention from a ghastly subject that SAUNDERSON led up to row alluded to. In course of remarks on release of Gweedore prisoners, he alluded to Father MCFADDEN as "a ruffian." Irish Members not used to language of that kind. Howled in pained indignation; the Colonel, astonished at his own moderation, varied the phrase by calling the respected P.P. "a murderous ruffian." Shouts of horror from compatriots ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 11, 1893 • Various

... under consideration. The surrender is an executive proceeding and a political act. But the laws may provide for a preliminary inquiry before a court into the propriety of complying with the demand. They certainly provide for a judicial proceeding by writ of habeas corpus to release any one arrested in such a proceeding if held without due cause. Is the court before which either of these proceedings may be had at liberty to receive advice or submit to instructions from the President of ...

— The American Judiciary • Simeon E. Baldwin, LLD

... course, then enter it, and we returned the way we came. Dr. Franchi does not know that his secret has been discovered. I have arranged to call on him, with a detachment of police, to-day, in order to inform him of it, arrest him, and release the prisoners. That is all I have to ...

— Mystery at Geneva - An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings • Rose Macaulay

... astonished, but had no complaint to make. His only wish was, now, to have his opportunity to bid his girl farewell and then to go to prison, where, as quickly as was possible, he might serve out whatever sentence was imposed on him. After his release, if the sentence was not of such duration that it spanned the few short years of life remaining to him, he would once again work for his Anna and endeavor to atone to her for the misfortunes which his own incompetence, he argued, ...

— The Old Flute-Player - A Romance of To-day • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

... shadow between the grey branches might easily seem to take solid form and weird shape to a brain that was fevered with excitement of crime and of flight and enforced vigil. She had a painful thing to tell this man—that she could not, as she had hoped, release him from his desperate prison that night; but she did not tell him until she had fed him first and given him drink too. She insisted upon his taking the food first. It was highly seasoned, beef with mustard upon it, and pickles. All ...

— The Zeit-Geist • Lily Dougall

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