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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



... called his promise to be sent to Switzerland. He raised his voice without any fear, as our little group, accompanied by the Commandant and the interpreter, went round, and I was allowed to speak to him freely. I am not a medical man, but I should think his was a case for release. His lungs were obviously in ...
— The Land of Deepening Shadow - Germany-at-War • D. Thomas Curtin
... time. He made his reverence and walked out of the church; but was no sooner clear of it than he set off to run with all his might: and tearing round a corner, ran into a large stomach, whose owner clutched him, to keep himself steady under the shock; but did not release his ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade
... to her. "Nobody ever took no care of me," sobbed Rosa. "I never had no father or mother. Oh, I wish I was dead!—and nobody wouldn't care!" These utterances, it may be imagined, went to the very heart of the errand-boys, who were collected in a circle, plotting how to release Rosa, when Elsworthy, mortified and furious, came back from his unsuccessful assault on the Curate. They scattered like a covey of little birds before the angry man, who tossed their papers at them, ...
— The Perpetual Curate • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... satisfied it was set free, and its flight closely followed by the farmer's eye. Another bee was found on a head of golden-rod; it was served the same way but set free at an opposite point from the first's release; this second flight was also closely noted. Some twelve of the tiny creatures from the clover and daisies were likewise treated, until the general direction of the flight of all was sure. This "hiving the bees" by the air-line they naturally took to their new home proved the ...
— James Fenimore Cooper • Mary E. Phillips
... only just have time," he said, gently seeking to release her. "I'll promise to keep him till you come back." And as Malvina did not seem ...
— Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome


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