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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

... Throgmorton found his expected opportunity, and offered his petition for Mr Underhill's release. This petition set forth "his extreme sickness and small cause to be committed unto so loathsome a gaol," and besought that he might therefore be released, offering sureties to be forthcoming when called upon: these were to be himself and his brother-in-law ...

— Robin Tremain - A Story of the Marian Persecution • Emily Sarah Holt

... at some uncertain date, Milton himself was got into the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms. He was soon released, and the story would not be worth relating but for a curious proof it gives of the {74} obstinate courage of the poet. The House ordered his release on December 15; and one would have supposed that he would have been glad to escape into obscurity and safety again on any terms. But no; the Sergeant-at-Arms demanded high fees which Milton thought unreasonable; and even then, when he had almost felt the hangman's rope ...

— Milton • John Bailey

... gets notice of it, causes clap him fast and lay him prisoner. The Captain came to seik back his soger, since he was under the protection of the King, but he could not praevaile: they replied, if he war their for debt they would villingly release him, but since he was ...

— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder

... in the hope of benefit, was declared by the physicians beyond recovery. Miss Anthony's first impulse was to hasten to her side, but she was confronted with her lecture engagements and told that it would be impossible to release her until May. She was almost desperate to be with the loved one and at last could bear it no longer, so telegraphing Mr. Slayton to cancel everything after April 5, regardless of consequences, she took the train at Chicago and reached Leavenworth on the 7th. She found her sister rapidly declining ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... Gone with the refluent wave into the deep, A prince with half his people! Ancient towers, And roofs embattled high, the gloomy scenes, Where beauty oft, and *etter'd worth, consume Life in the unproductive shades of death, Fall prone. The pale inhabitants come forth, And happy in their unforseen release From all the rigours of restraint, enjoy The terrors of the ...

— Domestic pleasures - or, the happy fire-side • F. B. Vaux

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